Health Promotion Model

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HBM is related to health promotion since it helps in designing short and long-term programs that help to keep the community safe from diseases or other health risk elements. The model is related to health promotion since it helps to gather information through the conduction of needs assessment to determine the individuals or community that is at risk. By having such information that population can be targeted and helped more readily. The model also conveys the consequences of the health issues, which are associated with certain risk behaviors in a manner that is unambiguous and clear to the people so that they can understand its perceived severity and take measures to control it in advance. HBM models also promote health by communicating to …show more content…

Cues to action promote reminders and awareness among chronic heart patients. Some of the ways in which the information can be relayed to the patients include media publicity, educational brochures, and community health classes or forums. Environmental events and personal ones can also help such patients to be motivated to undertake the actions that are advised by the physicians and research. Lastly, HBM can help stimulate change in a patient by instilling self-efficacy, which is the confidence in an individual's ability to take action successfully (Bellin & Geiger, 2004). This includes providing guidance, training and positive reinforcement to overcome the heart condition. The implication is having the confidence in changing one's diet or lifestyle to avoid chronic heart …show more content…

By using the model, nurses can develop effective interventions for the patients that suffer from chronic heart diseases. The interventions help to change the behaviors that are related to the complication. This is done through targeting the various aspects of the key constructs of the model. The model helps the nurses to increase the perceived seriousness and the perceived susceptibility to the chronic heart conditions by the provision of education about the incidence and prevalence of the disease. This can also extend to include the information about chronic heart disease consequences such as social, medical or financial, as well as giving individualized estimates of the risks associated with the

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