PUBHLTH 144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Throat Culture, Mental Health, Sensemaking
5 Oct 2016
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Health behavior anything a person does that affects the person"s health status or risk of disease. 3 categories of health behavior: preventive health behavior activities performed by healthy people in order to stay healthy. Wash hands, take vitamins: illness behavior activities performed by ill people to define the illness and discover a remedy. Take temperature, throat culture: sick role behavior activities performed by ill people in order to become well. Explanations we invoke (on a daily basis) to make sense of events we encounter in our lives sense-making (conspiracy theories) Scientific theories are: more elaborate, contain more clearly outlines characteristics, have a defined purpose. Behavioral health theories are composed of interrelated propositions, based on stated assumptions that tie selected constructs together and create a parsimonious system for explaining and predicting human behavior. Other common components of theories: concepts/constructs the abstract units that logically build a theory, often used interchangeably.
