Models of Health and Wellness Flashcards
Dunn’s High-Level Wellness and Grid Model - High level wellness in a favorable environment
Healthy lifestyle behaviors with resources to support the lifestyle
Dunn’s High-Level Wellness and Grid Model - Emergent high-level wellness in an unfavorable environment
Has the knowledge to implement healthy lifestyle but does not have resources
Dunn’s High-Level Wellness - Protected poor health in a favorable environment
An ill person whose needs are provided with adequate resources
Dunn’s High-Level Wellness and Grid Model - Poor health in an unfavorable environment
An ill person whose needs are not met and without adequate resources
Travis’ Health and Illness Continuum
- Health and illness can be viewed as the opposite ends of a health continuum
- High level of a person’s health condition can move through good health to normal health to poor health to extremely poor health and to death
- People move back and forth within this continuum day by day
Health Belief Model (Becker)
Describes a person’s belief and behavior
Three components of Health Belief Model
- Perceived susceptibility to illness
- Perceived seriousness of illness
- Perceived threat of an illness
Smith’s Model of Health - Clinical Model
- people as physiologic system with related functions
- health as the absence of signs and symptoms
- state of not being sick
Smith’s Model of Health - Role Performance Model
- health is individual’s ability to fulfil societal roles such as performing work
- people who can fulfil their roles are healthy even if they have clinical illness
Smith’s Model of Health - Adaptive Model
- focuses on adaptation
- health as creative process and disease as failure in adaptation or mal-adaptation
- aim of treatment is to restore the ability of the person to adapt or to cope with the environment
Smith’s Model of Health - Eudaimonistic Model
- health is a condition of actualization or realization of a person’s potential
- actualization is the apex of the fully developed personality (Maslows)
Leavell and Clark’s Agent-Host-Environment Model (Ecologic Model)
- predicting illness
Three factors of Leavell and Clark’s Model
- agent = any factor or stressors that can lead to illness or disease
- host = people at risk of acquiring a disease
- environment = all factors external to the host
Health Promotion Model (Pender)
- health as a positive dynamic state
- explains why individuals engage in health activities
- describes multidimensional nature of persons as they interact within their environment
Internal variables in HPM (Pender)
- developmental stage
- intellectual background
- perception of functioning
- emotional factors
- spiritual factors
