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ASSESSING CAUSES OF
HEALTH BEHAVIOR
Module 8
Predisposing
Direct factors:
communication: knowledge,
public, patients attitudes, values, Nonhealth factors
perceptions
Nonbehavioral Quality of life
causes
Health education Enabling factors:
Availability of Health problems Subjectively
components of Behavioral causes
resources, defined problems
health program
accessibility, of individuals or
referrals, skills Behavioral Vital indicators: communities
indicators: Morbidity,
utilization, Mortality, fertility, Social indicators:
Indirect Reinforcing preventive actions, disability illegitimacy,
communication: factors: Attitudes consumption population,
staff and behavior of patterns, welfare,
development, health and other compliance, self- Dimensions: unemployment,
training, personnel, peers, care incidence, absenteeism,
supervision, parents, prevalence, alienation,
consultation, employers, ect. distribution, hostility,
Dimensions:
feedback intensity, discrimination,
Earliness,
duration votes, riots,
frequency, quality,
crime, crowding
range, persistence
EDUCATION DIAGNOSIS
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Reinforcing factors:
Family
Peers
Teachers Contributing influence
Employers Secondary effects
Health provider # Approximate order in which the action usually occur
PREDISPOSING FACTORS
• Predisposing factors include:
▫ Knowledge
▫ Attitude
▫ Beliefs
▫ Values
▫ Perception
• Knowledge
▫ An increase in knowledge does not always cause behaviour to change.
▫ But can influence a positive associate between behaviour and health
effects.
▫ Health knowledge is necessary but not sufficient factor in changing health
behaviour.
▫ Only can motivate them.
PREDISPOSING FACTORS
• Belief
▫ Belief is a conviction that a phenomenon or object is true or
real.
▫ Faith, trust and truth are words used to express or simply
belief.
▫ Example of belief statements:
“I don’t believe that medication can work.”
“Exercise won’t make any difference.”
“It sure isn’t going to work for me.”
PREDISPOSING FACTORS
• Attitude
▫ A tendency of mid or relatively constant feeling toward a certain
category or objects, persons and situations.
▫ Attitude can always be assessed in terms of good and bad or
positive or negative.
PREDISPOSING FACTORS
• Importance
• How widespread or frequent the factors
• If the factor identified is very widespread or occur often, it should
qualify for priority consideration.
• How compelling or urgent the factors
• Immediate consequence for people at high risk need to pay attention
first
SPECIFYIG AND SELECTING FACTORS
DETERMINING BEHAVIOUR
• Changeability
• Individual pass through stage level of changeability
• Awareness interest trail decision adoption