HLTH 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Medicalization, Health Promotion
27 Oct 2017
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Bandura reading the primacy of self-regulation in health promotion. Divergent trend in health field pouring resources into medicalizing the damages of detrimental health habits, but conception of health is shifting from a disease model to a health model emphasizes health promotion rather than disease management. Health promotion should begin with goals not means. Quality of health is heavily influenced by lifestyle habits enable people to exercise some measure of control over the state of their health. Self-management as good medicine by managing health habits, people can live longer, healthier, and delay the process of aging. Current health practices focus heavily on medical supply side creates more time for minor dysfunctions to develop into disabling chronic diseases requiring health services medicalization of problems. Social cognitive approach focuses on demand side promotes effective self- management of health habits from supply-side practices to demand-side remedies to promote cost-effectiveness.
