Health care seeking behavior

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Health care

Health care services

Health care administration Health care costs Health care delivery Health care policy Health care systems Health care utilization Health service management Health service needs

Types of services

Community services Community mental health services Health maintenance organizations Integrated services Mental health services Managed care Primary care services Primary health care Private practice

Related topics

Case management Costs and cost analysis Cost containment Fee for service Quality of care Quality of services

Health care seeking behavior is a particular aspect of help seeking behavior. It is clear that people differ in their willingness to seek help from health care services. Some go readily for treatment, others only when in great pain and in advanced states of ill health.

see also

• Anosognosia
• Coping behavior
• Coronary prone behaviour
• Commitment (psychiatric)
• Health care utilization
• Hospital admission
• Health Belief Model
• Health service needs
• Illness behavior
• Physical illness (attitudes toward)
• Recovery (disorders)
• Self referral
• Sickness behavior
• Somatization
• Somatoform disorders
  • Conversion disorder
  • Somatization disorder
  • Hypochondriasis
  • Body dysmorphic disorder
  • Pain disorder
• Treatment compliance

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