title: Self-responsibility in health care/promotion: motivational factors.
abstract: This paper explores motivational factors at play in self-responsibility in health care and promotion. If people do not take responsibility for their health status, is it because they can not or will not? "Can" refers to the ability or skill to do something, while "will" refers to intention and effort. Each of these factors are analyzed in terms of their role as a cause of behavior in self-responsibility for the health status. Educational intervention to motivate self-responsibility is suggested as well as empirical research in how people attribute health outcomes.
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D001519:Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D009042:Motivation