PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Behavioral Medicine, Health Promotion, Consumer Behaviour
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Part 1: foundations of theory in health promotion and health behavior. Effective public health, health promotion, and chronic disease management programs help people maintain and improve health, reduce risks, and manage chronic illness. A theory presents a systematic way of understanding events or situations. It is a set of concepts, definitions, and propositions that explain or predict these events or situations by illustrating the relationships between variables. Theories must be applicable to a broad variety of situations. They are by nature abstract, and don"t have a specified content or topic area. Concepts are the building blocks the primary elements of theory. Constructs are concepts developed or adopted for use in a particular theory. They key concepts of a given theory are its constructs. Variables are the operational forms of constructs. They define the way a construct is to be measured in a specific situation.
