Theories Related To Health Promotion
Theories Related To Health Promotion
Theories Related To Health Promotion
Education
Health Promotion
• helping people develop resources to maintain
health and enhance their knowledge.
• the process of enabling people to increase
control over and to improve their health
(Ottawa Charter)
Health Promotion
• First Use of The Term Health Promotion
Occurred in 1945
• “Health is promoted by providing a decent
standard of living, good labor contains,
education, physical culture, means of rest and
recreation.”
-Henry E. Sigeret
Four (4) Major Tasks of Medicine
1. The Promotion of Health
2. The Prevention of Disease
3. The Restoration of the Sick
4. Rehabilitation
Health Promotion
• 1986 – The who, health and welfare Canada
and the Canadian Public Health Association
organized an international convention on
health promotion.
• The result of the conference was the Ottawa
Charter for Health Promotion.
Ottawa Charter for Health
Promotion
• guiding principle in health promotion
5. Behavioral outcome
– Directed towards attaining positive health
outcome for the client
– Should result in improved health and
better quality of life at all stages of
development.
Bandura’s Self-Efficacy Theory
• Self – efficacy theory of Albert Bandura
Level of motivation:
5) Choice of course of action
6) Intensity
7) Persistence of effort
4 Major Psychological Processes:
Motivation processes is covered by 3 types of
Self-Influence:
2) Self-satisfying
3) Self- dissatisfying reactions to one’s
performance
4) Perceived self efficacy
5) Readjustment of personal goal based on
one’s progress
4 Major Psychological Processes:
3. Affective Process – process regulating
emotional state and elicitation of emotional
reactions.
- The stronger the sense of self-efficacy the
bolder people are in taking on taxing and
threatening activities.