Golden Dome
The degree to which a person feels at risk for a health problem
Perceived susceptibility
The stage describing individuals who are not considering changing their behaviors, or are consciously intending not to change
Precontemplation
The conviction that one can successfully execute the behavior required to produce the outcomes
Self-efficacy
The stage at which a person makes a serious commitment to change and begins to make the necessary preparations to do so
Preparation
The values an individual places on the outcomes resulting from different behaviors
Expectations
A state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease/infirmity
Health
An external event that motivates a person to act
Cues to action
Uptake of behavior or technology
Adoption
Refers to the way in which people tend to look on their world or universe to form a picture or value stance about life or the world around them
Worldview
Refers to common care or similar meanings that are evident among many cultures
Cultural care universality
Things imposed on the biological world by a society or group of people who have, for many years, developed a system of beliefs and practices
Biocultural Definition of Culture
Refers to outsider’s (health professional) views and institutional knowledge about culture care phenomena
Professional care (ethic)
Describes the way in which behavior and the environment continuously interact and influence one another
Reciprocal Determinism
Assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling professional actions and mutual decisions that would help people reorder, change, modify, or restructure their lifeways and institutions to achieve better health care patterns, practices, or outcomes.
Cultural care repatterning or restructuring
A system of belief, practice, and technology directly tied to economic activity or to the adaptation of a people to a particular physical environment
Cultural Materialist Definition of Culture
Developed in the 1950s as part of an effort by social psychologists in the United States Public Health Service to explain the lack of public participation in health screening and prevention programs
Health Belief Model