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The demographics and etiologies of illness have changed in the past century. The most common causes of mortality and morbidity today are diseases of lifestyle, behavior, and adaptation; stress-related conditions; chronic illnesses and impairments; and complex biopsychosocial conditions. No illness is purely physical or emotional, but rather illness emerges from heredity and personality, through choices in consumption and activity, forged by life stress and environment. The Pathways Model introduces a stepwise program for improving well behaviors, addressing body, mind, and spirit through Level One changes in everyday health behaviors, Level Two self-regulation skills, and Level Three professional complementary and integrated interventions. The aim of this model is to educate health-care professionals to recognize the signposts on the path to illness so that the consumer can be assisted in reestablishing normal rhythms and modifying maladaptive behaviors, to assist ill individuals to identify the factors that have contributed to the onset and escalation of the disease, and to discover new choices and well behaviors to enable the recovery of health.
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McGrady, A., Moss, D. (2013). Introducing the Pathways Model. In: Pathways to Illness, Pathways to Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1379-1_1
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