Evaluate The Health Belief Model

Firstly, I will be talking about the health belief model. The health belief model was developed to predict preventive health behaviour and it is a psychological model and it was first developed in the 1950s by a social psychologist named Hochbaum, Kegels and Rosenstock. The health belief model focuses mainly on the beliefs and attitude of the individuals. They believe that it makes changes to the persons behaviour. However, the health belief model also suggests that if an individual believes that there is a serious threat to their health, then they would take actions towards it and on the other hand because of this, the individuals can also benefit from this as they are taking further actions to make changes and they would be recommended to undertake preventive health actions and this can help to show how a person change their lives over to live happier than how they use to be.
Furthermore, if they believe that their behaviour change is beneficial to them, they would feel more confident and motivated that that they are doing something about it to change their behaviour and it also attempts to prevent the diseases. However, other people may not try to change their behaviour because they might not be bothered or at least try to change their behaviour. Also, if people are warned about some the potential health problems, they are also more like to take preventive action and these all are key concepts of the health belief