Additional factors in the three domains of the sociotype that relate specifically to chronic disease management as in diabesity.
Additional factors in the three domains of the sociotype that relate specifically to chronic disease management as in diabesity.
| Individual Health | Relationships | Environment |
|---|---|---|
| Macro-level: Health care system, health benefits | Significant other and family | Access to health centers, mobility |
| Meso-level: Health insurance, relations with health maintenance organization (HMO), pharmacists | Community primary care case manager and medical team | Facilities for chronic care: clinics, dialysis centers, day-care |
| Micro-level: Patient care process, health literacy, treatment, and side-effects: adapting, adjusting to a new reality | Case manager Hospital specialist Medical team and health professionals |
Financial circumstances |
| Physical status, nutrition, activity, self-management | Continuity and coordination of care | Housing facilities (daily living) Access to care, personal hygiene facilities, etc. |
| Mental health, personality type, health beliefs, taking responsibility for treatment options | Patient self-management support groups | Ability to continue working |
| Coping and compliance strategies, denial Dependency, loss of control Complications and side-effects Eyesight Peripheral vascular disease (amputations) Kidneys (dialysis) Impotence |
Friends Pets Carers |
Cultural acceptability of illness |
| Health literacy Alternative medicine |
Information technology |