Education
Educational success is associated with better health. Educational success links to higher earnings; higher income tends to allow for a healthier lifestyle through being able to afford nutritious and expensive food as well as better housing and holidays. Moreover, people with higher level of qualifications tend to exercise more, eat healthier diets and also smoke less which is good for healthy living. Education helps individuals to learn problem solving skills, a sense of purpose and future which gives the individual a better sense of belief in their ability to cope with adversity. …show more content…
It originated around 1952. The model suggests that, an individual is most likely to undertake the recommended preventive health action if they believe. They key concept in the model include:
Perceived susceptibility: perception of how likely people will get a particular condition that would adversely affect their health.
Perceived seriousness: People’s beliefs about the effects of disease would have on them, for example, how a disease will create pain and discomfort, financial impact, loss of work