Lecture 1-Lay beliefs Flashcards
Illness behaviour
Activity of ill person to define illness and seek solution
What is the Biopsychosocial model?
Relates how our physical wellbeing is connected to mental health and environmental factors.
Social factors- social class, employment, social support
Lay referral
People discuss their symptoms with others before going to see doctor
Adherence to treatment
Deniers- Deny having asthma
Acceptors- Accept diagnosis+ doctors advice
Pragmatists- Only use medication when having asthma attack
What is the negative definition?
Health equates to absence of illness
Positive definition
Health is a state of wellbeing and fitness
What are the lay beliefs?
- Definitions of health and illness vary
- Exploring what health means to people
- Impacts on how they adhere to treatment
What is the biomedical model?
Relates to how illness is purely due to biological and physiological processes and is the responsibility of the doctor only
Health behaviour
Activity that impacts health or helps prevent illness
Smoking- prevalent among lower socioenomic- as it is a stress/coping mechanism. Trauma
Sick role behaviour
Formal response to symptoms e.g seeking formal help
Lay epidemiology?
- Understand why and how illness happens
- Why it happened to a particular person at a particular time
What influences health behaviour?
Socioeconomic factors Time Culture Availability of resources Visibility of symptoms Lay referral
Functional definition
Health is the ability to do certain things
