Table 1

The health capability profile37

Health capabilities
Internal

  • Health status and health functioning (2)

  • Health knowledge (4)

  • Health-seeking skills and beliefs, self-efficacy (3)

  • Health values and goals (4)

  • Self-governance and self-management and perceived self-governance and management to achieve health outcomes (5)

  • Effective health decision-making (4)

  • Intrinsic motivation

  • Positive expectations

External

  • Social norms (6)

  • Social networks and social capital for achieving positive health outcomes (3)

  • Group membership influences

  • Material circumstances (6)

  • Economic, political and social security

  • Utilisation and access to health services (5)

  • Enabling public health and healthcare systems (3)

  • Each health capability comprises one or several (number in parenthesis) domains.