Group 4 Presentation - BEHAVIORAL - SCIENCE
Group 4 Presentation - BEHAVIORAL - SCIENCE
Group 4 Presentation - BEHAVIORAL - SCIENCE
GROUP 4
IHEMEJE MARTINS EBERECHUKWU P22DLPH80849
IRENONSE AFEILORIA P22DLPH80977
ORJI CHINAZO P22DLPH80750
ISMAIL FATIMA P22DLPH80945
HARUNA THOMAS P22DLPH81050
OMOTUNDE OLUBUNMI P22DLPH80947
SALIHU ISAAC P22DLPH80462
ABDULMAJEED UMMULKHAIRI P22DLPH81063
OBANI HAMEED P22DLPH80722
ALIYU UMAR P22DLPH81199
ILLNESS BEHAVIOUR: Any activity undertaken by a person, who feels ill to define the
state of his or her health and to discover a suitable remedy (for example, going to see a
physician).
What is Health and Illness
Behaviour Cont’d
• HEALTH BEHAVIOUR: is any action an individual
takes to promote, protect, or maintain health,
regardless of its effectiveness or the person's health
status or these are healthy behaviors aimed at disease
prevention, such as quitting smoking, losing weight,
exercising, and eating well.
Health behaviour greatly affects an individual's overall
health and quality of life. It includes health promotion,
preventive actions, health-compromising behaviors,
health seeking behaviour, and health maintenance
behaviour.
DETERMINANTS
OF HEALTH
BEHAVIOR
•Individual Factors: Knowledge,
Attitudes, Beliefs
Changing
Shift in disease burden
international travels and trade
Health and
Systems
Strain on healthcare
infrastruture due to population,
inadequate sanitation,
insufficient public health
interventions
Aging Population
and Demographic Lifestyle Changes
Shifts
Patterns
threats
of Health
Challenges in
Healthcare delivery
eg. health Physical Activity
inequalities
and Promotion of
Illness:
Smoking
healthy aging
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Utilize evidence based
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Tailor educational
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Provide accessible and
04
Empower individuals
health education materials messages to the target culturally sensitive health with the skills and
and campaigns to increase population’s literacy education through
awareness and knowledge
resources to make
level, and cultural beliefs. community workshops,
about healthy behaviors, school programs, mass informed decisions
risk factors, and preventive media and platforms. about their health.
measures.
ADDRESSING HEALTH BEHAVIOR
CHANGE
Behavioral interventions:
• Design interventions that address the
underlying determinants of health
behavior, including attitudes, beliefs,
and social support.
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Advocate for policy changes and Collaborate with policy makers, Advocate for the integration of health
environmental modifications that create community leaders, and stakeholders to considerations into urban planning,
supportive contexts for health behavior develop and implement based policies transportation, housing, and land use
change, such as implementing smoke free and interventions that address social policies to create environments that
policies, improving access to healthy determinants of health. facilitate physical activity, healthy eating,
foods e.t.c. and social connectedness.
ADDRESSING HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE