Health behaviour & lifestyle

• Health behaviour

  Healthy people undertake to keep themselves or other healthy and prevent disease
• Conner and Norman (1996) defined health as

  Activity that is taken for preventing and detecting disease to improve health and well being
• 2 aims of research on health behaviour

  • Changes to improve health behaviour
  • General understanding
• Types of health behaviour

  Health-directed behaviour

  Health- related behaviour
• Health-directed behaviour 


  Behaviour that people conciously pursue to improve health condition
• Health-related behaviour


  Behaviour that perform other reason than health but have health effect
• 2 types of Health-related behaviour

  Health-supporting behaviour

  Health-impairing behaviour
• Define lifestyle

  An activities and habits that promotes health which reduce risk major illness
• Stages for prevention strategies

  Primodial prevention

  Primary prevention

  Secondary prevention

  Tertiary prevention

  Quarternary prevention
• Primordial preventive


  Earliest prevention of modality
• Example of primordial preventive

  Improving access and prevention strategies
• Primary prevention


  Prevent a disease from occur again
• Example of primary prevention

  Immunization

  Micronutrient Supplementation program
• Secondary preventation


  Early disease detection
• Tertiary prevention


  Reduce the effects of disease
• Tertiary prevention


  Rehabilition
• Quarternary prevention


  An action taken from protect patient againts intervention that cs harm
• Illness behaviour stages

  1. Symptoms experience
  2. Assuming sick role
  3. Medicine self care
  4. Dependent patient role
  5. Recovery and rehabilition
• 3 distinct process

  • Physical pain
  • Cognitive recognition
  • Emotional respone of concern