A Cybernetic Approach to Controlling Health Problems

For several decades, health issues have increased by to a greater extent than 8.5% each year. According to a recent study conducted by the concentrate on for Disease Control and Prevention, 65% of US adults are either sound or obese. The rate of diabetes are increasing in the United States, with a 27 percent increase seen in the last five years.The high school cost of health assist alike poses a major holy terror to the nations economy. However, health problems can be prevented to a large extent by controlling peoples lifestyle. Group discussions and conversations whitethorn help people to adopt a good way of living. Therefore, Cybernetics which is the study of conversation/communication and control/ normal can be used to help solve this problems. This study aims at using cybernetics as a model for controlling health problems. colonyIn developed countries of the world man develop USA, where the literacy rate is above 95%, people know that leading a healthy lifestyle removes th e take chances of chronic health issues to a considerable margin. However they most multiplication do not adopt a healthy way of living. why? dependance has ruined the healthy life style of people. For example- people may be inclined to sleeping and do not exercise, addicted to eat foods with high calories that causes them obesity and make them prone to heart problems.Addiction is a condition in which a consistent desire/craving to plagiarize an addicted behavior exceeds the ability to rationally stop doing so. When the to a greater extent you have, the more you seem to need to achieve the said(prenominal) core group or allow. This effect can be displayed as a positive feedback closed circuit where the regard continues expanding within the loop.Some background near feedback loops Feedback loops are of two forms negative feedback loop and positive feedback loop.Negative feedback loops strives towards balance and stasis by subtracting error with each cycle. A good example of negative feedback loop is homeostasis, the bodys organization for observeing itself chemically and temperature balanced. Positive feedback loops, by comparison, add the variations of each cycle.As a result they can become potentially dangerous as their effect put one everywhere with each event. Hypothermia, shock, heatstroke are examples of positive feedback.Figure-1 models colony (nicotine dependency) as a positive feedback. The desire for smoking continues to increase in the loop for achieving the homogeneous level of satisfaction. The first day, Bob needs to smoke once and eviscerate satisfied. The second day, he needs to smoke twice to get the same level of satisfaction.Gradually, his cravings and urge to smoke increases along with the frequency.Controlling the Uncontrollable(addiction)The graph above (Figure-1) indicates how the addiction continue to expand in a positive feedback loop. Also, Batesons examination of intoxicant addiction contended that the very attempt to regain discretion, to be a commander of ones own spirit, added to the heightening of the alcoholism. Moreover, the Twelve Step Program of Alcoholics Anonymous-which has been efficaciously adjusted to a huge number of addictive practices, offers recuperation by surrendering that is, by stopping to deliberately try to stop the addiction.Subsequently, the person who is addicted does not have an essential variety to control addiction.At the point when Addiction becomes uncontrollable, how can it be controlled? Ludwigs research on Alcoholics mind demonstrates that developing the straight-laced(a) mind frame (sufficient inspiration) for sobriety improves the probability that an idiosyncratic can contour out how to resist his addiction .Sufficient inspiration or adequate indigence can solve the puzzle of addiction as an uncontrollable event.The draw beneath demonstrates the cybernetic approach to deal with controlling health issues by inspiring individuals to follow a sound way of life (work out, yoga, healthy food and so on.), that is abstaining from an unhealthy way of life.Reward/Incentive SystemPeople have divers(a) needs including monetary needs, physiological needs, safety needs and esteem needs. An individual can be motivated for performing an activity using proper incentives which may help in fulfilling some of his needs.A reward system could be a web application like Weight Watchers or an organization such as a health club. Below is a model of an incentive system used in motivating a person to exercise regularly. The model besides shows that the system can keep refining or modifying the incentive system to make sure that the substance abuser is always motivated.Group Affiliation/FriendsGroups, friends and circle of relatives assist in controlling addictions and correct the manner people live.People develop practice, care and similarity in a group that offer intellectual strength for controlling their cravings. It has additionally been proved that the group association programs offer long- term remedy for addiction in comparison to short-term remedy provided through medication therapy. Self-assist programs like Alcoholics anonymous, rational healing or women for Sobriety, assist in gaining control over addiction through assisting the affected person to integrate into a self-assist group. impudenceTrust is a system-related concept and that is a constantly evolving state of knowledge acquisition, process and feedback. Figure-4 demonstrates the system model of assert between two actors (trustor and regent). The trustor continually accesses the behavior of the trustee against his intellectual model of trustworthiness, which results in increased trust if the behavior matches with his mental model otherwise decreased trust.Trustworthiness relies on three variables which relate to perception to the highest degree the person to be relied on competence, integrity and benevolence. Competence is the perceived potential of the t rustee, as measured through indicators which includes cooking or credentials, experience, and reliable past performance. Integrity is the degree to which the trustee is considered to perform with honesty, fairness, and consistence of actions and words. Benevolence concerns the extent to which the trustee demonstrates care and consideration for people he or she interacts directly or indirectly.In addition to the above-recognized antecedent variables, trust also relies on the context within which the trustor and trustee are embedded. It could affect the extent to which the trustee is rated on antecedent variables particularly competence. For instance, a person may be perceived as competent in one context further no longer in another. Furthermore, it is essential to differentiate between Interactions among strange others and ongoing interactions among familiar others for trust.In a fond system, trust could be unidirectional or bi-directional. Also, trust may be commutative.After t he developement of trust, the trustor (Alice) feels confident and becomes volition to take actions based on the suggestions, actions and decisions of the trustee (Bob) to an extent proportional to the trust level in the trustee. Now, when Bob says that he controlled his blood sugar level by following the recipes from the diabetic cook-book, Alice feels confident the same recipes in the diabetic cook-book works and she is now motivated to follow them too. It also gives her a cordial proof of the reliability of the recipes from the diabetic cook-book.Figure-6 is the conversation model of this trust and social proof scenario between Alice and Bob.CareCare is also a continously evolving state of instruction aquisition, processing and feedback.Similarity, trust, understanding and reciprocity make the important variables. It is also dependent on context and familiarity/relationship between individuals. Below is a figure which shows a model of care between Alice and Bob and how care hel ps them for abstinence.Bobs behavior is matched to Alices mental model of a person she would like to care for. If there is a positive match,then the care for Bob increases otherwise it decreases. When there is a match, she cares about what Bobs expectations are from her. She feels a sense of responsibility/accountability for Bobs expectations because she does not unavoidableness to disappoint him. Similarly, Bob also does a behavior assessment of Alice against a mental model of a person she would like to care for. Its also important to note that both may have different perceptions or mental models of the persons they may like to care for.Also, care may be unidirectional as well. Now when Bob makes a suggestion to Alice about losing weight, she feels trustworthy/ accountable for losing weight as she cares about Bob. Similarly, Bob feels responsible/accountable for not smoking when Alice asks him to quit smoking.Figure 7 Care/ responsibility/ResponsibilitySimilarityIn comparism to t rust and care, similarity also is a constantly evolving state of information acquisition, processing and feedback.The antecedent variables for similarity might include mental attitude, behavior, hobbies, age gender and race.The figure below shows how similarity motivates Bob for exercising often because he gets competitive and inspired by Alice.The table below summarizes Trust, care and similarity.Antecedent Variables MotivationTrust Competence, Integrity, Benevolence Willing to act on the basis of words, actions anddecisions of anotherCare Similarity, Understanding, Trust, reciprocity Accountability,ResponsibilitySimilarity Mindset, hobbies, age, gender, race Competitiveness,InspirationFigure 9 Summary for Trust, Care and SimilarityAlternative model for Accountability, Responsibility, Competitiveness and coaction in a self-help group.