Why is the health belief model useful?
Simply so, is the health belief model effective?
Evaluating the effectiveness of health belief model interventions in improving adherence: a systematic review. The Health Belief Model (HBM) was developed in 1966 to predict health-promoting behaviour and has been used in patients with wide variety of disease.
Moreover, what does the health belief model suggest?
The Health Belief Model. The HBM suggests that a person's belief in a personal threat of an illness or disease together with a person's belief in the effectiveness of the recommended health behavior or action will predict the likelihood the person will adopt the behavior.
Major Criticisms The HBM is “reductionistic” in that it leaves out emotion1 as well as social and other environmental influences such as culture. It is a “rational exchange” model in that it argues that individuals systematically list and weigh the barriers and benefits of a behavior.