P1 P2 MODELS OF HEALTH BEHAVIOUR

models of health-related behaviour including Health and illness: definitions and concepts of health and illness, medical model, biopsychosocial model; use of holistic concept of health in underpinning complementary treatments, eg acupuncture, homeopathy, herbal medicine; the perception of illness; coping within illness Health-related behaviours: theories of behaviour change – health-belief model, reasoned action, planned behaviour; compliance and non-compliance; the ‘sick role’, placebo effects, psychosomatic and somatopsychic effects of illness Influences on health-related beliefs and behaviours: cultural, eg differing attitudes amongst different ethnic groups; individual, eg age, gender; education eg religious/ethnic/professional sub-cultures; socio- economic, eg social class, economic status; environmental, eg population density, available infrastructure