health behaviour change

what are health behaviours

• activities that may help prevent disease, detect disease and disability at an early stage, promote and enhance health, or protect from risk of injury

• i.e. interventions to encourage goof behaviours and reduce bad behaviours

internal factors influencing behaviour

• knowledge/skills

• attitudes/beliefs

• circumstances e.g. finance, time, stress

• physiology/ genetics

external factors influencing behaviour

• environment

• social norms

• media

• laws and regulations

• healthcare system

social norms and health promotion

• misperception of peer behaviour

  • overestimate risk behaviour

  • underestimate protective behaviour

  • focus on extremes

• providing correct normative informations

• focus and alcohol and substance misuse

factors affecting individual behaviour

• access to equipment

• time

• safe outdoor space

• energy levels

• motivation

stages of change model

self regulation theory

• self regulation→ capability to manage one’s behaviour in pursuit of certain goals

the COM-B model

behaviour change interventions

• stage 1→ understand the behaviour

• stage 2→ identify intervention options

• stage 3→ identify content and implementation options

behaviour change wheel

levels of intervention

• individual→ advice, employment

• organisational→ workplace responsibility for health of workforce

• community→ skills and resources set up by communities

• society→ laws, taxation