Types Of Health Behaviour and health related behaviour
Human behaviour, especially health behaviour, is complex and not always readily understandable. Health behaviour, like other behaviour, is motivated by stimulite in an individual’s environment. The response to such stimulite may or may not be directly related to health.
Motivation which leads to health influencing behaviour may also not be related to health per se. Motivation for health behaviour is dynamic and not static
Types Of Health Behaviour
• Health-directed behaviour
– Observable acts that are undertaken with a specific health outcome in mind
• Health-related behaviour
– Those actions that a person does that may have health implications, but are not undertaken with a specific health objective
in mind
Types Of Health-related Behaviour Part 1
• Preventive Health Behaviour
– action taken when a person wants to avoid being ill or having a problem e.g. a mother takes her child for immunisation
• Illness Behaviour
– action taken when a person recognises signs or symptoms that suggest a pending illness e.g. a mother gives her child cough medicine after hearing her wheeze
TYPES OF HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIOUR part2
• Sick-role Behaviour
– action taken once an individual has been diagnosed (either self or medical diagnosis) e.g. a mother decides that her child has malaria and takes him to the clinic for treatment
Posted by KMZack on January 15th, 2010 :: Filed under Health, Health Behaviour
Tags :: Illness Behaviour, Preventive Health Behaviour, Sick-role Behaviour, TYPES OF HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIOUR
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