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Nola J. Pender's Health Promotion Model

Nola Pender's Health Promotion Model focuses on pursuing optimal health and well-being. It views health as a positive state, not just the absence of disease. The model examines how individual characteristics and experiences influence health-promoting behaviors. It also considers behavior-specific cognitions and affect, as well as environmental influences that impact commitment to health-promoting actions. The ultimate goal is achieving behavioral outcomes that enhance individuals' wellness.

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Nola J. Pender's Health Promotion Model

Nola Pender's Health Promotion Model focuses on pursuing optimal health and well-being. It views health as a positive state, not just the absence of disease. The model examines how individual characteristics and experiences influence health-promoting behaviors. It also considers behavior-specific cognitions and affect, as well as environmental influences that impact commitment to health-promoting actions. The ultimate goal is achieving behavioral outcomes that enhance individuals' wellness.

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Nola J.

Pender's
HEALTH PROMOTION MODEL
LIFE STORY
Birth: August 16, 1941 in
Lansing, Michigan Nola j. pender
-Former professor of phd, rn, faan
nursing at University of
Michigan
THEORY DESCRIPTION
Designed to be a Health is a positive Describes the
"complementary dynamic state rather multidimensional
counterpart to than simply the nature of persons as
absence of disease. they interact within
models of health
Health promotion is their environment to
protection"
directed at increasing
pursue health.
a patient’s level of

well-being.
THEORY DESCRIPTION
Each person has Health promoting The final behavioral
unique personal behavior is the desired demand is also

characteristics and behavioral outcome, influenced by the


which makes it the immediate competing
experiences that
end point in the Health demand and
affect subsequent
Promotion Model. preferences, which
actions.
can derail intended
actions for promoting
health.

Theory assumptions
Individuals seek to actively regulate their Health professionals constitute a part of
own behavior. the interpersonal environment, which
exerts influence on persons throughout
Individuals in all their biopsychosocial their life span.
complexity interact with the environment,
progressively transforming the Self-initiated reconfiguration of person-
environment and being transformed over environment interactive patterns is
time. essential to behavior change.
Theory assumptions
Pender's model focuses in three areas:

Indivual Behavior-specific
Behavioral
characteristics cognitions
and experiences and affect outcomes
HEALTH PROMOTION HEALTH PRTECTION OR ILLNESS
-Behavior motivated by the desire to
PREVENTION
increase well-being and actualize -behavior motivated desire to actively
human health potential avoid illness, detect it early, or maintain
-It is an approach to wellness functioning within illness constraints

INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS BEHAVIOR-SPECIFIC COGNITION


AND EXPERIENCES AND AFFECT
-prior related behavior and personal -perceived benefits of action, perceived
factors. barriers to action, perceived self-efficacy,
activity-related affect, interpersonal
influences, and situational influences
BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES
-commitment to a plan of action,
immediate competing demands and
preferences, and health-promoting
behavior

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