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01-15-2022 HMO- health maintenance organzitaion, one type of managed care plan Health related behavior-greater attention is being give to peoples health neighbor since health habits are related to chronic and fatal disease A health behavior is any activity people perform to maintain or improve their health regardless of their perceived health status or whether the behavior achieves that goal Three types of health behaviors- well behavior, symptom based behaviors, and sickrole behaviors Well behavior- any activity use to maintain or improve current good health and avoid illness Keep in mind- when people are well they may not want to put in the effort or make sacrifices for their healthful behavior Some people are stoic and do not show signs of emotion Sick role behavior- any activity people undertake or adjust to h a health problem after determining their illness Conflict theory- fear or stress may interfere with rational decision making- QUIZ Engagingin healthful behaviors depends heavilyon otivationfactors - perception of the threat of the disease, value in behavior of reudcing the threat,the attractiveness of unhealthful behaviors, QUIZ QUIZ Particular health behaviors are not strongly tied to each other,a persons practices one specific health habit, wecannot accurately predict he she practices another specific habit Lack of consistency- at any given time inlife, various factors, may differentially affect different behavior, people change with experience, lie circumstances change The approaches to illness prevention- behaviroal influence- providing informationand encouraging health behvaiors, environmental measures, involves changing the environment Preventive medical efforts- examples include dental checkup Health advances have occurred through twoavenues-efforts to prevent disease and improvements indiagnosis and treatment These levels are called the primary,secondary and teritiary Primary-consist of action taken to avoid disease or injury, secondary actions-taken to identify and treat an illness or injury with the aim of stopping or reversing the problem, Tertiary-progresses beyond early stage-condition may lead to last orirreversible damage Health promotional factors- the individual- involves perception, cognition, addiction, motivation, operant conditioning beliefs Factors within- intrapersonal- little incentive to make immeadiate change Prevention requires a change in long standing behaviors that have become habitual, may become addiction Peopleneed to have cognitive resoruces , self efficacy and motivaton Drugs impact what we change to do Community factors- less likely to adopt health behaviors encouraged by government and health care agencies,

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Larger communities face array of problems for preventing illness Health beleievd model- likelihood person will take preventive action Transtheoretical models -this model emphasizes a readiness to change – show different psychosocial changes Precontompletaion-contompletaion- preparation-action-maintenance

Gather a small intervention team with 2 peers,1f amily member, 1 significant other...