Objective: To determine a conceptual definition of health seeking behavior. Methods: Walker and Avant (2011) method of concept analysis approach. The author identified the attributes, antecedents, consequences, empirical referents, and create case description of the concept including model case, borderline case and contrary case. The review literature from thirty-nine separate sources were chosen from database searches of Proquest, CINAHL and PubMed accessed from the University"s library website. Others information relating to health seeking behavior was included from some pages of a related website. Key terms utilized for the search were "health seeking behavior" OR "health seeking" OR "health behavior" Results: Health seeking behavior described as the action or inaction of individual which responding to the stimuli to achieve optimum well-ness. Conclusion: Health seeking behavior described as the action or inaction of an individual which responding to the stimuli to achieve optimum well-ness. It has clearly described the differences of this concept with another concept that has a close definition such as help seeking behavior, and health information seeking behavior.
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