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Health Concept and Health

Behavior
Dr. Susi Ari Kristina, M. Kes., Apt

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Definitions

• WHO: “Health is a state of complete

physical, mental, and social well-being, not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity”

• Disease: pathological change in structure

&/or function

• Illness: response of person to disease

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Determinants of health
heredity

Environment Health services

Promotive,
Physical, social, Health preventive,
biological and man- curative,
made rehabilitative

Behavior
Actions
Habits
Reactions
Belief,
attitudes
Practices
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(Lifestyle)
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MODELS OF HEALTH & ILLNESS

• Agent-Host-Environment •
Health/Illness Continuum
• Health Belief Model
• Health Promotion Model

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Agent-Host-Environment Model
• Each factor constantly
interacts with the others

• When in balance, health is

maintained

• When not in balance,

disease occurs

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Health-Illness Continuum
• Measure person's perceived level of wellness
• Health and illness/disease opposite ends of a health
continuum
• Move back and forth within this continuum day by day •
Wide ranges of health or illness

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Health Belief Model

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Health Promotion Model

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Types of Health Behavior

• Health-related behavior
– Those actions that a person does that may have
health implications, but are not undertaken with a
specific health objective in mind
• Preventive Health Behavior
– action taken when a person wants to avoid being ill
or having a problem eg a mother takes her child for
immunization
• Illness Behavior
– action taken when a person recognizes signs or
symptoms that suggest a pending illness eg a

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mother gives her child
cough medicine after hearing her wheeze

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PHASES BETWEEN
KNOWLEDGE & BEHAVIOR

Knowledge Putting the

of correct Perception Interpretation Salience knowledge
health action into action

Source: Adapted from

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Level of knowledge- Bloom's taxonomy

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Knowledge-attitude-behavior change

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