Adaptive Health Behaviors. Adaptive responses to health-related situations

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Adaptive responses to health-related situations

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Pattern of adapting to health

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Active ExerciseAvoiding Care

Good Nutrition

Health Information seeking

React to illness

Save Money on Health

Fitness Commitment

No family health responsibility

Adaptive Health Behaviors

= 15 million adults

Adaptive Health Behaviors

• 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

Adaptive Health Behaviors

The Patterns of Adapting To Health (PATH)

Adaptive Health Behaviors

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)

Adaptive Health Behaviors

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

Adaptive Health Behaviors

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”

Adaptive Health Behaviors

• 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

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Adaptive Health Behaviors

PATH and Healthy Lifestyle

Adaptive Health Behaviors

PATH and Depression

Adaptive Health Behaviors

PATH and Obesity

Adaptive Health Behaviors

Problem:

• The PATH hidden • No awareness of PATH

within • Optimal health tied to

one PATH

Adaptive Health Behaviors

PATH Personal Analysis• Deepen knowledge

• Reveal dominant PATH• Deepen knowledge of all PATH

effects on PATH Identity

Solution:

Adaptive Health Behaviors

PATH Personal AnalysisSession 1

• Assessment

• Depth probing

Session 2

• Dominant PATH

• Dominant PATH Behavioral

Traits and Biases

• Long-term health effect

Adaptive Health Behaviors

PATH Personal AnalysisPATH Change Map

Session 2

• Map from dominant PATH to

Optimal PATH for long-term

health

Adaptive Health Behaviors

PATH Coaching

• Following PATH Change Map

Adaptive Health Behaviors

http://patternofhealth.com

Frederick H. Navarro, PhDwww.adaptivehealthbehaviors.com

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