This document discusses several factors that influence a person's health beliefs and practices, including biological, developmental, intellectual, perceptual, emotional, spiritual, familial, socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental factors. It notes that a person's health beliefs differ depending on their developmental stage, intellectual background, perceptions of functioning, emotional state, spiritual beliefs, family practices, socioeconomic status, and cultural background. The document emphasizes that nurses should consider all of these factors to effectively involve clients in their care.

2.  Biological
 Environmental
 Psychological
 Internal variables
 External variables

3.  Developmental stage
 Intellectual background
 Perception of functioning
 Emotional factors
 Spiritual factors

4.  Developmental stage
 Health belief of an adult is different than of child
 Level of growth and development

5.  Intellectual background
 Concepts about body functions and illness
 Knowledge level
 Educational background
 Past experiences

6.  Perception of functioning
 People differ in their perception about physical
functioning.
 Nurse should gather subjective and objective data

7.  Emotional factors
 Stress, depression and fear
▪ Very calm …………little emotional response
▪ Depressed …………over react to the illness

8.  Spiritual factors
▪ Some religions restrict the use of certain forms of medical
treatment
▪ Nurses must understand client’s spiritual levels to involve
them effectively in nursing care

9.  Family practices
 Socio-economic factors
 Cultural background

10.  Family practices
▪ Depends on how his family uses health care services
▪ Family response to disease and their preventive care
behaviors.

11.  Socio-economic factors
 Social and psychosocial factors influence health
and health practices
▪ Psycho social variables
▪ Marital and intimate relationship
▪ Life style habits and occupational environment
▪ Economic variables
▪ Poverty
 Malnourishment
 Deficiency diseases

12.  Cultural background
▪ Beliefs about the causes of illness and treatment practices
▪ Nurses should be aware of the cultural patterns of their
clients

13.  BILOGICAL FACTORS
 ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
 PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS

14.  Pathogenic micro-organism.
 Biologic hereditary factors (genetics).
 Other factors
 Age
 Gender
 Growth and development

15.  Social environment
 Political and economic system in the society
 Cultural system.
 Income and social status
 Education
 Lifestyle
 Psychological factors
 Emotions
 Feelings
 Psychological function

17. Illness results from a disease(physiological
or psychological)or from an injury that affects
body functioning
 Multiple causative factors
▪ Poor immunity
▪ Poor health
▪ Accumulation of toxins inside the body
▪ Exposure to microorganisms
▪ Poor thoughts

18. A risk factor is anything that increases the
vulnerability of an individual or community to
an illness or accident.
 Does not mean that the individual develop
disease
 Only increases the chance for experiencing
the disease

19.  Genetic factors
 Physiological factors
 Environment
 Age
 Lifestyle
 Dietary habits
 Other factors
 Biological factors and behavioral factors
 Immunologic factors
 Services, social factors and spiritual factors