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Social and Behavioral Theories in Health - Coggle Diagram
Social and Behavioral Theories in Health
The Development of social and behavioral sciences is closely connected with the development of public health. These two areas share a fundamental belief that understanding the organization and motivation behind social forces can be used to improve the lives of individuals, as well as society as a whole.
Efforts to address social and economic inequalities that developed during this period and provided an intellectual and institutional structure for what was and is now called social justice.
Contributions of Social and Behavioral Sciences to Public Health
Psychology, theories of the origins of behavior and risk-taking tendencies and methods for altering individual and social behaviors.
Sociology, theories of social development, organizational behavior, and systems thinking; social impacts on individual and group behaviors
Economics, understanding the micro and macro impact on public health and healthcare systems
Communications, theory and practice of mass and personalized communication and the role of media in communicating health information and health risks.
Social systems can affect health thorugh a variety of mechanisms.
Shaping norms: certain behaviors may become generally accepted among social groups. Everyone else is doing it sort of mentality and it can have a strong influence on an individuals decision to partake in the activity.
Enforcing patterns of social control: having rules and regualtions in place creates structure for scoiety, which can affect health
Providing opportunities to engage in healthy behaviors: the opportunities, or lack of in our surroundings can have a strong influence on our health
Encouraging selection of healthy behaviors as a coping strategy
Socioeconomic status, includes measures that are strongly related to income including, family income, educational level or parents' educational level and their professional status
Here in the US health status measured by life expectency, is strongly associated with socioeconomic status and income.
Socioecnomics may effect health
living conditions, increases in sanitation, reductions in crowding, methods of heating and cooking
Overall educational opportunities, education has the strongest association with health behaviors and health outcomes
Access to goods and services, ability to access goods, such as protective devices, and high quality foods and services, including medical and social services to protect and promote health
Family size, large family size adversely affects health and is traditionally associated with lower socioeconomic status and lower health status.