Health Belief Model
The health belief model is a guide used to promote health and prevent disease programs. It gives results and predicts changes in health behaviors making it the most commonly used model in understanding human behavior. Additionally, it focuses on individual beliefs about health conditions as well as predicting health-related behaviors. There are various factors that influence health behaviors as an individual perceives a threat to sickness referred to as perceived susceptibility (Edberg, 2015). Cues to action are the exposure to factors that prompt actions and perceived barriers to action while the beliefs of consequences are referred to as perceived severity. Finally, confidence ability to succeed known as self-efficacy and potential positive benefits of action referred to as perceived benefit. For instance, perceived susceptibility on the Covid 19 pandemic, which has made various countries worldwide cues to action on hindering international movement to help control the spread of the disease. The belief that the use of masks and frequently sanitizing is perceived severity that the spread will be minimal. The perceived benefit from the action is that minimal cases are reported when all the guidelines are followed making it self -efficacy that the control of the spread is manageable.
Reference
Edberg, M. (2015). Essentials of Health Behavior (2nd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning