The purpose of this paper is to discuss the health belief model and how it has been used as a theoretical foundation in the improvement of quality improvement projects. The health belief model is one of the oldest model that is still used in practice and quality improvement projects. A comprehensive review will be utilized to define, discuss and synthesize the theoretical foundation for this model. This paper will also discuss how the health belief model is being used in practice today to improve health prevention and health promotion.
Introduction
The health belief model (HBM) is a theory of health behavior and is one that is most widely used and recognized today (Butts & Rich, 2015). The (HBM) was developed by a group of social psychologists in the 1950’s they were employed by the U.S. Public Health Services and were searching for ways to explain why people would not participate in health prevention or promotion programs (Butts & Rich, 2015). The social psychologist begins to explore what were barriers for not participating in the preventive programs (Butts & Rich, 2015). This lead to the …show more content…
Gaining weight and deciding to exercise and eating a low calorie diet will probably depend on how much they believe that they’re at risk for obesity according to Yinshu & Edmond,( 2015) Perceived susceptibility has been found to be less predictive in other health promotion behaviors including self-breast examination of African American women (Ref, 2015) states that African American ( AA) women were significantly more likely to believe that they were less likely to develop disease base on their luck or other powerful being and that early diagnosis just gave them more time to worry about the disease that is probably related their cultural belief (Registe& Porterfield,
Introduction
The health belief model (HBM) is a theory of health behavior and is one that is most widely used and recognized today (Butts & Rich, 2015). The (HBM) was developed by a group of social psychologists in the 1950’s they were employed by the U.S. Public Health Services and were searching for ways to explain why people would not participate in health prevention or promotion programs (Butts & Rich, 2015). The social psychologist begins to explore what were barriers for not participating in the preventive programs (Butts & Rich, 2015). This lead to the …show more content…
Gaining weight and deciding to exercise and eating a low calorie diet will probably depend on how much they believe that they’re at risk for obesity according to Yinshu & Edmond,( 2015) Perceived susceptibility has been found to be less predictive in other health promotion behaviors including self-breast examination of African American women (Ref, 2015) states that African American ( AA) women were significantly more likely to believe that they were less likely to develop disease base on their luck or other powerful being and that early diagnosis just gave them more time to worry about the disease that is probably related their cultural belief (Registe& Porterfield,