Health Belief Models Flashcards

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Health belief models

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Clinical model 
Role-performance model 
Adaption model 
Eudemonistic model 
Agent-host-environment model  
Health continuum model
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Clinical model

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Narrowed view of health care
Considers physiological only
Absence of symptoms and disease = health

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Role performance model

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Considers someone healthy if they can function efficiently at work
Bad because people lives aren’t just their work
Eg. Man with tumour or chronic depression = healthy because he can still be an accountant

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Adaptive model

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Disease is seen as failure to adapt or maladaption
Focus on allowing the person to cop in their situation, to adapt
So if there is a way to function again without actually restoring health that makes them health
Eg. Using crutches and never healing a snapped ligament

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Eudemonistic model

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Focus on the potential of life and sees health as actualisation of that potential
Illness is seen as an obstacle or barrier to achieving full potential

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Agent-host-environment model (ecological model)

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More a theory of the causes of disease
Used to predict illness not promote wellness
Three major parts interact
Agent: potential pathogen or health risk
Host: the person at risk
Environment: the surrounding environment that does not pose a risk to the person

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Health-Illness continuum

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Used to measure a persons perceived level of wellness

  • Dunns high level wellness grid
  • Travis’s illness/wellness continuum.
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