Theoretical Thinking In Health And Social Care

My interest in public health emerged when I recognized how much the health and well-being of an individual affects a community. From a young age, both my parents have struggled with their health; my mother having diabetes and my father having hypertension. I have seen how their health has affected them on the day to day basis and how it has affected those around them at a community level. As I continue to learn more about public health I am beginning to understand that many of the health problems, like the ones my parents face, can be prevented through lifestyle adjustments. Also, I have learned the most effective way to prevent diseases in a community is through advocating healthy habits to avoid health problems from emerging in the first place.

The Health Belief Model is commonly used for health promotion and health education. Its’ underlying concept is that health behavior is explained by perception of the disease and the strategies available to lower its occurrence. There are four perceptions of the HBM, which are perceived seriousness, perceived benefit, perceived susceptibility and perceived barriers. In addition to that, more constructs are added to health belief model that includes motivating factor, cues to action and self-efficacy. Each of these constructs in combination or individually, could be used to determine health behavior. The HBM also provides guidelines for the program development allowing planners to address reasons for non-compliance with recommended health action. The health belief model is a process used to promote healthy behavior among individuals who may be at risk of developing adverse health outcomes. A person must gauge their perceptions of severity and susceptibility of developing a disease. Then it is essential to feel vulnerable by these perceptions. Environmental factors can play a role as well as cues to action such as media, and close friends. In order to determine that taking action will be meaningful, the benefits to change must be weighed, against the barriers to change behavior (Green & Murphy, 2014).

A theory is a set of principles that help to explain or suggest ways to reach a behavior change (Hayden, 2014). There are different types of theories that help to provide a framework that explains and influence our actions and behavior. The importance of theory is that it looks at three levels of influence; intrapersonal, interpersonal, and community. Each level helps to explain behavior at how different factors can influence what we do and why we choose to do it. All theories should be applied in our lives with a positive intention. It teaches us to change a behavior that will help and benefit our health. A specific health behavior theory that best describes the connection between our success and failures, is the Health Belief Model (HBM).

Theories are a series of interconnected proposals. Theories are an effort to describe, explain, predict, and finally control a period of events. We are able to base our experiments and select the contenders for the experiments off of our theories. We are able to test our theories by how well the cumulated data describes, relates to and predicts reality. Theories act as patterns for interpreting specific data that we may refer back to. These patterns ensure we stay on topic and are able to obtain the proper results needed to verify our theories.

In this part of my assignment I will describe 2 different theories of behaviour change in relation to health.

Partnership is when two or more organisations work together, showing cooperation and collaboration. This can provide better care and support for service users. For example, different funds working together, instead of working individually and stressing. Another example, a social worker and the health visitor will need to work together, share ideas and use different skills to develop a support plan that will benefit children and families. This also promotes multi-disciplinary working. Partnership thus can reduce conflicts and enhance team working skills as professionals can work together, sharing responsibilities and ensuring need led approaches are met and set. This can be done by reviewing care plans and offering support.

A theory is a set of systematic informed hunches about the way things work. A good theory goes beyond accepted wisdom and offers explanations and speculations about phenomena. Additionally, a good theory consists of a system of concepts which means that the theorist were able to make connections among his ideas. A theory tends to shape our perception of reality and behaviour and guides us through unknown areas.

The educational model of health promotion seeks to provide advice and information to enable informed decisions. Tones and Tilford

Critically analyzing theories was an objective met through research for the health promotion project. A theoretical framework was identified and applied to the health promotion project. Identification of the Health Belief Model and application to the health promotion project for childhood immunization adherence was completed. It states one’s decision to participate in health behaviors is influenced by a personal

Butts and Rich (2018) introduced us to Behavior Health Theories (BHT) and emphasized how advanced practice nurses utilize these theories to evoke change in their patients (p. 244). There are many BHT but these few are the most popular: Behavioral Health Model, Social Cognitive Theory and Theory of Reasoned Action and Theory of Planned Behavior (Butts and Rich, 2018, p. 242). Although, we will not go into depth discussing the difference in the theories; it’s important

The following essay is a comparative analysis of two theories of health promotion, one which is a theory of and the other a theory for health promotion. Beattie’s model will be used as theory of and transtheoritical stages of change model as a theory for health promotion. An example from area of work practice will be used to demonstrate the differing aspects emphasised by each Theory. Furthermore the essay will seek to suggest an explanation of current health promotion. This assignment will therefore aim to achieve a greater comprehension of what health promotion actually is and to understand what is meant by ‘Theories of and for…’.Difference of theories and models will also be given. Being able to state

Although many programs apply these theories, there can be advantages and disadvantages of integrating them into prevention programs. A disadvantage in theories in which actions are required in a program is that policy or social context could be affected (Glanz, Rimer, & Viswanath, 2008). Mammography screening is an example of this. Policies may require that the women test at a certain age. One of the advantages of integrating these theories into prevention programs is that these theories can be useful to find out why people are not following positive health behaviors (National Institute of Health, n.d.). An example would be of a person who over eats due to his or her situation at home. Therefore, the program may want to incorporate the Health Belief Model to change the way they think about that health behavior. The second advantage of applying a theory to a prevention program is that theories allow us to understand targeted health behaviors (National Institute of Health, n.d.). In an addiction program, it would be important to understand targeted health behaviors in order to know which form of intervention is going to be assessed in the

Theory explains how individual act toward things on the basis of the meanings they ascribe to those things. The meaning comes

According to Haralambos and Holborn (2008), a theory is a set of ideas which attempts to explain how something works.

The theory is one of the most important aspects of science; are the backbone of science. From the definition of science, we have seen that it is a systematic manner of generating knowledge. Theories help to elaborate the observed phenomenon regarding what is known; they predict the unknown, and in the end, they come up with a conclusion or a new format of the situation. Theories also help to show the scope of the observed conditions as well as interactions of the situation with other entities. Therefore, theory plays the role of enabling of the formulation of hypothesis in science which are later tested using the systematic approach to science.