Health Belief Model Research Paper

A wise man once said “good health is not purchasable, but should be valued and never taken for granted”. As the world continues to rapidly transform and our scientific findings expand, the field of Public Health must continue to innovate to reach our goals for healthier humans on this planet. I believe good health is one maintaining balance of their physical, emotional, and spiritual state. This includes also valuing their own life, the lives of other, and taking responsibility of their own body. Balance is keeping each health state at a stabilized position. Reaching a high level of well being is imperative for keeping that “balance” to maintain good health. Throughout my many life experiences, this belief of “balancing one’s health” and
Based off the information given to me, I believe it would be the most appropriate and beneficial to the middle school and high school students. The Health Belief Model is an intrapersonal theory that “addresses a person’s perceptions of the threat of a health problem and the accompanying appraisal of a recommended behavior for preventing or managing the problem (Glanz & Rimer, 1995, pg 17). In other words, this theory will focuses on students past experiences, knowledge, attitude, motivations, skills, beliefs, and other individual factors. The new behavior change I would promote is the use of contraceptives. The constructs I will be using of the Health Belief Model are perceived susceptibility, perceived benefits, and cues to
The reason I used this construct is because now we need the students to actually do something with the information that was presented to them. As a health educator, we are given the task to prevent poor health outcomes and giving them cues to action will be necessary to know if the program is successful. The cues to actions I would give to the students in this given situation would be showing them a video that address the dangers if they don’t take the steps of using contraceptives. Especially, since the group of students I would be dealing with or inner city students, I would have a video that relates back to them so that they feel as though this information is relevant to them. I believe these three constructs are important to address so that the students are left educated about pregnancy and