Super Models of Health
Concerned with what people perceive to be true about themselves in relation to their health
What is the health belief model?
Oxygen, water, food, sexuality
What are physiologic needs?
Shared system of beliefs, values, and behavioral expectations
What is culture?
Difference in health outcomes that are closely linked with social, economic, and environmental disadvantages
What are health disparities?
This refers to individuals who are Spanish-speaking or have a background in a Spanish speaking country.
What is Hispanic?
Views health as a constantly changing state with high-level wellness and death on opposite sides of a continuum
What is the health-illness continuum?
Hand hygiene, fall prevention, PPE
What are safety and security needs?
The feelings a person experiences when placed in a different culture resulting in psychological discomfort
What is culture shock?
Everyone gets the same access to healthcare resources and treatments.
What is health equality?
This religious group typically refuses blood tranfusions.
What is Jehovah Witnesses?
It is a traditional model that explains how certain factors place some people at risk for an infectious disease.
What is the Agent-Host-Environment Model?
Belonging, establishing trust, communication, love
What are loving and belonging needs?
The assumption that all members of a culture, racial or ethnic group act alike
What is stereotyping?
This concept ensures that access to healthcare is offered in a fair and just manner to provide an opportunity to be as healthy as possible.
What is health equity?
Traditional Chinese medicine notion based on keeping the body's cold and hot energies in balance through diet, lifestyle, acupuncture, and herbal regimens.
What is yin and yang?
This model poses six stages of change that an individual moves through when making lifestyle changes to improve health
What is the Stages of Change Model?
Need for a person to feel good about oneself, to feel pride and a sense of accomplishment, and to believe that others also respect and appreciate those accomplishments
What are self-esteem Needs?
Belief that everyone should conform to the majority belief system
What is cultural imposition?
The degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.
What is health literacy?
The set of behaviors, values, and attitudes medical professionals that enable them to work better
What is cultural competency?
Incorporates individual characteristics and experiences and behavior-specific knowledge and beliefs, to motivate health-promoting behavior
What is the Health Promotion Model?
Focus of interest on problems outside oneself, Respect for all people, Ability to be objective
What are self-actualization needs?
Belief that one’s ideas, beliefs, and practice are the best or superior or are most preferred to those of others
What is ethnocentrism?
Complex, integrated, and overlapping social structures, policies, and economic systems that affect health and quality of life outcomes.
What are social determinants of health?
A persons economic and social position in relation to others
What is socioeconomic status?