Lay Beliefs Flashcards
What are lay beliefs?
How people understand and make sense of health and illness, constructed by people wiht no specilist knowledge and not a watered down medical knowledge, and they are complex arising from many different sources
What is a negative definiation of health?
Health equates to the absence of illness, and is commonly found in lower socioeconomic groups
What is a functional definition of health?
Health is the ability to do certain things, what people want to do and what makes them happy, generally seen in older people and lower socioeconomic groups
What is a positive deifination of health?
Health is a state of wellbeing and fitness, and is more commonly found in people in higher socioeconomic groups, health is seen as something you work towards
What are the two ideas surrounding lay epidemology?
Understanding why and how illness happens and why it happened to a paticular person at a paticular time
What is the idea of the candiacy of a illness ?
The kind of people that get a certain helath problem, and health promotion tends to work on the idea of candiacy however it can be a negative thing
What is a health behaviour?
An activity undertaken for the purpose of maintaining health and preventing illness
What is a illness behaviour?
Activity of an ill person to define illness and seek solution
What is a sick role behaviour?
A formal response to symptoms including seeking help and the action of a person as a patient
What are some of the factors that lead to lower socioecomnic class being assoicated with a smoking behaviour?
Higher social class are likely to have a positive deifination of health, with the incentives of giving up more likely for people who expect to remain healthy, and incentives are less for disadvantaged groups who may focus more on the short term where it is a normalised behaviour
What is the symptom and illness icebergy?
Most people who have a symptom of ill heat will not go and see a doctor about it, therefore most symptoms will never make it to a doctor
What influences the illness behaviour of a person?
Culture, eg a stoical attitude, the visibility and the salience of symptoms, the extent to which symptoms disrupt life, the frequency and the persistence of symptoms, the tolerance threshold, and informaiton and understanding, the availability of resources, can this person get time off work, and lay refferal
What is lay refferal?
It is relatively rare for someone to visit a docto without visting someone else beforehand, and therefore about 3/4 of those visiting a doctor have discussed their symptoms with someone else beforehand, and there is a chain of advice seeking contacts which a person will make
What is the importance of lay refferal?
Helps understand why people may have delayed in seeking help and how why and when people consult with a doctor, and your role as a doctor in the ill health, and the use of healthcare services and mediation
What are the three groups of people when regarding adherance of treatments?
Deniers and distancers, pragmatistis, and acceptors
