What They are?

The ​Health Patterns are nine natural patterns shaping the health behavior of hundreds of thousands of adults throughout the United States and internationally. 

Emerging from the uncertainty of early adulthood and ambiguity about health-related preferences, the nine patterns control the expression of developing health priorities with growing personal control of health decision-making.  

After nearly three decades of observing their effects on health, it is now clear these patterns influence good health, poor health, rates of disease, medical costs, and the expression of health behavior and health behavior change.  

Why They are relevant?

The nine Health Patterns shape mindset and the expression of autonomous health motivations. 

Adults adapt to health in ways that conform to different patterns of motivated actions and habits. These patterns operate at nonconscious levels. 

While an adult's unique response to health-related issues is freely chosen, the whole of their adaptive behavior across all health issues is shaped by the influence of these patterns, which subsequently shape health outcomes.​