List five of the nine health assumptions that must be in place before the health promotion process begins
What will be an ideal response?
(any five of the following):
• Health status can be changed.
• Health and disease are determined by dynamic interactions among biological, psychological, behavioral, and social factors.
• Disease occurrence theories and principles can be understood.
• Appropriate prevention strategies can be developed to deal with the identified health problems.
• Behavior can be changed, and those changes can influence health.
• Individual behavior, family interactions, community and workplace relationships and resources, and public policy all contribute to health and influence behavior change.
• Initiating and maintaining a behavior change is difficult.
• Individual responsibility should not be viewed as victim blaming, yet the importance of health behavior to health status must be understood.
• For healthy behavior change to be permanent, an individual must be motivated and ready to change.
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