adaptive health behaviors. adaptive responses to health-related situations

Adaptive Health Behaviors


Adaptive responses to health-related situations


Pattern of adapting to health


Active ExerciseAvoiding Care

Good Nutrition

Health Information seeking

React to illness

Save Money on Health

Fitness Commitment

No family health responsibility


= 15 million adults


• High alcohol use• High cigarette smoking• 50% higher migraines• 30% higher cholesterol• 65% higher rate liver disease• 85% higher rate weight problems• 75% higher rate back pain• 72% higher rate depression


The Patterns of Adapting To Health (PATH)


PATH 3:Wisely Frugal

• Active health information seekers

• Low exercise• Some nutrition• Emotional stress,

anxiety• Chronic allergies,

respiratory conditions

PATH 1: Critically

Discerning

• Some physical activity

• Some health literacy

• Uninvolved in wellness

• reactive to health problems

• emotional stress, anxiety, sleeplessness

• Obesity

PATH 2:Health Contented

• Avoids health care • disinterest in health • sedentary lifestyle• poor diet • Disinterest in health

information• Obesity• Emotional stress,

anxiety, sleeplessness, depression, migraines

Patterns of Adapting to Health (PATH)


PATH 4:Traditionalist

• Sedentary lifestyle• Poor diet• Low health literacy• High rates of

chronic disease and health risks

• Underutilize prescription medications

• External locus of control (depends on others)

PATH 5:Family Centered • Family’s health

above all other health matters

• Constantly seek to enhance family health

• Moderate physical activity

• Moderate health literacy

• Most sensitive to the age and life stage of the population

• Obesity• Postpartum

depression

PATH 6:Family Driven

• Moderation in all health care opinions and behaviors

• Moderate interest in health information nutrition and physical fitness

• Higher rates of illness/disease

• increasing medical claims


PATH 7:Healthcare Driven

• Involved in good nutrition/healthy dieting

• Moderate physical exercise

• High health literacy • Frequent use of

healthcare care• Highest rates of

most diagnosed diseases

• Highest medical costs

• “Proactive health and wellness”

PATH 8:IndependentlyHealthy

• Vigorous physical activity

• good nutrition/healthy diet

• High health literacy • The healthiest, most

active• lower rates of all

diseases• “fitness”

PATH 9:Naturalist

• Use of alternative health

• Good nutrition • Moderately active• High health literacy• lack of trust in

medical professionals

• Higher rates of heart disease, skin cancer, breast cancer, migraines, high cholesterol

• “Proactive health and wellness”


• Deep pattern

• Health-related beliefs, goals, actions, habits

• Predicts areas of health you approach and are attracted to; areas you avoid and are repulsed by

• Affects the way you see, respond to your health world

• Unconsciously shapes health

PATH Identity

Pattern of adapting to health


PATH and Healthy Lifestyle


PATH and Depression


PATH and Obesity


Problem:

• The PATH hidden • No awareness of PATH

within • Optimal health tied to

one PATH


PATH Personal Analysis• Deepen knowledge

• Reveal dominant PATH• Deepen knowledge of all PATH

effects on PATH Identity

Solution:


PATH Personal AnalysisSession 1

• Assessment

• Depth probing

Session 2

• Dominant PATH

• Dominant PATH Behavioral

Traits and Biases

• Long-term health effect


PATH Personal AnalysisPATH Change Map

Session 2

• Map from dominant PATH to

Optimal PATH for long-term

health


PATH Coaching

• Following PATH Change Map


http://patternofhealth.com

Frederick H. Navarro, PhDwww.adaptivehealthbehaviors.com

body.ioQuantum Publishing

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