Health behavior
Health behavior Health behavior
‣ Illness behavior in life-threatening situations• Crisis of dealing with the diseaseDimensionsTypes of illness behaviorof illnessbehavior Everyday Acute Chronic LifethreateningsituationsPrimaryprocessRestraint Coping Adaptation HandlingcrisisRole relations Compromise Weak Impaired AnomicPatientphysicianrelationshipindirect guidance -cooperationmutualparticipationactivity -passivitySource: Alonzo, 1984:508.
Andersen’s model of help-seekingfor medical care• 3 components:• Predisposition – sociodemographic variables, attitudesand beliefs about health care• Enabling factors – family income, health insurancecoverage, availability of services, access to a regularsource of care• Health needs – health status, disability or diagnosis –factors for seeking medical care• This model successful in describing variance in healthservices utilization• Does not explain why some processes are occurring
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‣ Illness <strong>behavior</strong> in life-threatening situations• Crisis of dealing with the diseaseDimensionsTypes of illness <strong>behavior</strong>of illness<strong>behavior</strong> Everyday Acute Chronic LifethreateningsituationsPrimaryprocessRestraint Coping Adaptation HandlingcrisisRole relations Compromise Weak Impaired AnomicPatientphysicianrelationshipindirect guidance -cooperationmutualparticipationactivity -passivitySource: Alonzo, 1984:508.
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