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Socio-Cognitive Models In Health And Social Care

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Introduction
A lot goes into making healthcare complete and available for all and in so doing needing a series of inter-connected web of activities and strategies all to promote, restore and maintain health of the individual and society at large. The WHO came up with 6 building blocks of the health system; health financing, health information, service delivery, human resources for health, governance and leadership, pharmaceuticals and technology to attempt to display the major issues at play in any health system. It has been criticized rightly for missing out the consumers as part of the building blocks(1) and in some parts of the world, this has shown repeated failure in the part of interventions to produce favourable results(2). I believe …show more content…

Socio-cognitive models are models that assess certain aspects of the human belief and intention forming systems and are used to explain and predict behaviour as an outcome of multiple factors assessed like subjective norms and beliefs, for example, the Theory of Planned behaviour can predict an individual’s behaviour with an accuracy of 20 to 40% which is …show more content…

In health education for example, some of the main players - as regards health systems components- are mainly the human resources for health ( nurses educating pregnant mothers on breastfeeding and health facility delivery), service delivery ( health education sessions offered to groups in a specialised clinic) and pharmaceutical and technology used to treat an infected patient. Health promotion, however, goes beyond boundaries of the health facility and/or health systems and into the community; infrastructure improved to allow supply of clean water to prevent cholera and other water-borne diseases, media announcements for mass screening campaigns against e.g. cervical cancer, policies and laws formulated to govern road safety, police officers tasked with ensuring motor vehicle safety, and many more. Regardless of the varied scope of the health education and promotion, theories of socio-cognitive behaviour change can still be used at all levels of health interventions (7, 8). Both health education and health promotion are swallowed up in the term health promotion and both are considered during health

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