An Multi Causation Disease Model Diagram

Personal responsibility is crucial for maintaining wellness, I find the multi-causation disease model diagram according to McKenzie et al, a clear distinction of the components the three circles in the model represents, the outer circle covers factors such as economics, environment , health care system, water quality, infectious disease outbreaks and air pollution, these are factors out of an individual’s control, followed by the middle circle which covers personality, beliefs and behavioral choices, this can be altered through choices and specific behavior patterns with the potential to impact health, the inner circle is genetic endowment, the DNA that we inherit. I have based my argument on the middle circle as the bridge to wellness. The obvious is, the outer and inner circles comprises of factors beyond our control. Encouragingly, personality, beliefs, and behavioral choices that represent the circle in the middle has the potential to bridge the gap between what we cannot control and the behavior modification that can impact our genetic endowment for better or worse. From this observation coupled with the public health goal to educate and motivate the population and communities to become proactive in their well-being, the focus of this paper is to highlight the personal inherent qualities, the intangibles that can be cultivated to the state of homeostasis.

My focus will be to investigate the components of the middle circle and explore the various behavior practices necessary to enhance what happens to be a a long term public health goal. Before we delve into the behavior changes, let’s take a look at what is driving health care cost, a component of the outer circle we have no control over. A closer loo...

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In the random experiment, the targeted subjects were employees of the Compuware Corporation, an information technology service company in Detroit, Michigan. Two hundred and two employees were invited to participate in a study about meditation to reduce stress. The group filled out a survey and gave their consent, out of the 202 selected, 102 were assigned to the Loving Kindness meditation group and the other 100 were placed on a waiting list made up of a controlled group. After an elimination process based on violations such as failure to complete fewer than three sessions out of the six weeks and those who completed 30 of the 61 less than the assigned daily reports. Eventually, the total number of those eliminated was 63 of which, 34 were from the loving kindness meditation group and 29 from the waiting list, overall,