Health behavior
Health behavior
Health behavior
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4. Concept of sickness career• Illness – disability - includes changes in social identityand <strong>behavior</strong>-related expectations• Concept of career – status change – an individual movesfrom one social identity to the other• Total status sum = career• sick-leave, ageing, dying - specific careers• Patient career - provisional statuses (social identities)and goal of sickness career depend on disease type,patient type, and social and cultural circumstances inwhich the sickness career develops