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The terms health problem, diagnosis, and need are often used (in different health‐related discipline or professions) interchangeably to reflect a situation requiring a solution. Clients (individuals, families, communities) experience a range of health problems and seek health professionals' assistance in selecting and applying appropriate interventions to address the problems. Health problems are the triggers for designing interventions since remedying the problem requires understanding it first (Kok et al., 2016). Poor conceptualization of the problem could result in the design of inappropriate and potentially ineffective intervention, that is, type III error (Renger, 2011). Accordingly, understanding the health problem requiring remediation provides directions for: specifying the goals of the intervention; identifying its active ingredients that are expected to successfully address the problem; and delineating contextual factors that should be considered in operationalizing and providing an intervention. Interventions designed in a way that is responsive to the target client populations' experience of the health problem and context are likely to be acceptable, efficient, and effective (Huntink et al., 2014; Yardley et al., 2015). For instance, Glanz and Bishop (2010) stated that the most successful public health interventions are based on an understanding of health behaviors and the contexts in which they occur. The understanding is best represented in the theory of the problem.