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Promoting Wellness: Insights into Health Behavior & Prevention Strategies

Explore key health behavior concepts, prevention strategies, and challenges in promoting wellness. Delve into factors influencing health behavior, beliefs, intentions, and non-rational processes. Learn effective methods for promoting health in schools, workplaces, and communities.

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Promoting Wellness: Insights into Health Behavior & Prevention Strategies

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  1. Health-Related Behavior and Health Promotion Chapter 6 Dr. Alan H. Teich

  2. Health Behavior • Well behavior • Symptom-based behavior • Sick-role behavior

  3. Practicing Health Behavior • Health behavior practices • Gender, sociocultural, and age differences • Consistency in health behaviors

  4. Preventing Illness • Primary Prevention • Secondary Prevention • Tertiary Prevention

  5. Problems in Promoting Wellness • The Individual • Interpersonal / Social Factors • Community Factors • Cultural Factors

  6. Determinants of Health-Related Behavior • Heredity • Learning • Social, Personality, & Emotional Factors • Perception & Cognition

  7. Beliefs and Intentions • Health Belief Model • Likelihood that individuals will take preventive action function of two assessments: • Threat of the health problem • Pros & Cons of taking action

  8. Beliefs and Intentions • The Theory of Planned Behavior • Intentions are the best predictors of what people will do • Determinants of intentions • Attitude regarding the behavior • Subjective norm • Perceived behavioral control

  9. Beliefs and Intentions • Stages of Change Model • Precontemplation • Contemplation • Preparation • Action • Maintenance

  10. Nonrational Processes • Motivated Reasoning • Emotional Factors • Conflict Theory • Challenge or opportunity • Cognitive sequence • “No, it is not a challenge “ • “Yes, it is a challenge”

  11. Methods for Promoting Health • Information • Behavioral Methods • Promoting Health in Schools • Worksite Wellness Programs • Community Wellness Programs

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