According to Mustafa (2013), perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information and it would be affected by physical organism, basic need, goals and values, self-concept, element of threat and time and opportunity. The processes of perception keep altering what we see. The Constitution of WHO (1946) states that good health is “a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”, which means that human health has different aspects. Different aspects could have different relationships with people’s perception of reality respectively. The first part of this article will discuss the relationship between perception of reality and human health and the
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For example, a woman whose mother and grandmother both got breast cancer would perceived that there is a high probability for her to suffer in breast cancer so that she would be more willing to have regular check-ups and screening tests. This could also be analyzed through the Health Belief Model developed by social psychologists at the U.S. Public Health Service. The Health Belief Model suggested health behaviors would be affected by perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived costs, motivation and enabling or modifying factors. Appling the model to the example above, the woman would perceive that breast cancer is personally relevant to her because her mother and grandmother also suffer in that. Also, the woman would perceive the severity to be high because breast cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths among female in Hong Kong (Centre for Health Protection, 2015). Besides, the woman would perceive that regular check-ups and screening tests would help discover the breast cancer in earlier stage while early-stage cancers are easier to treat and the chance of survival is higher. Moreover, the woman’s perception of costs, such as complexity, duration, and accessibility and accessibility, of regular check-ups and screening tests would affect her health behavior. Therefore, people’s perception of reality on health …show more content…
Social health involves people’s ability to form interpersonal relationships with others, adapt to different social situations or environment and act appropriately to due with different situation. These relationships would be threated by stresses, like dishonesty and dissension. People’s perception of reality would affect their viewpoints and action. Since people have different perceptions of reality, those who have special perception may have very different opinions than the other. In this situation, those have different opinions than the most would be considered as strange and this would affect their interpersonal
For example, a woman whose mother and grandmother both got breast cancer would perceived that there is a high probability for her to suffer in breast cancer so that she would be more willing to have regular check-ups and screening tests. This could also be analyzed through the Health Belief Model developed by social psychologists at the U.S. Public Health Service. The Health Belief Model suggested health behaviors would be affected by perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived costs, motivation and enabling or modifying factors. Appling the model to the example above, the woman would perceive that breast cancer is personally relevant to her because her mother and grandmother also suffer in that. Also, the woman would perceive the severity to be high because breast cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths among female in Hong Kong (Centre for Health Protection, 2015). Besides, the woman would perceive that regular check-ups and screening tests would help discover the breast cancer in earlier stage while early-stage cancers are easier to treat and the chance of survival is higher. Moreover, the woman’s perception of costs, such as complexity, duration, and accessibility and accessibility, of regular check-ups and screening tests would affect her health behavior. Therefore, people’s perception of reality on health …show more content…
Social health involves people’s ability to form interpersonal relationships with others, adapt to different social situations or environment and act appropriately to due with different situation. These relationships would be threated by stresses, like dishonesty and dissension. People’s perception of reality would affect their viewpoints and action. Since people have different perceptions of reality, those who have special perception may have very different opinions than the other. In this situation, those have different opinions than the most would be considered as strange and this would affect their interpersonal