Health Belief Model and Cultural View of Illness Assignment

The Health Belief Model: “a conceptual framework that describes a person’s health behavior as an expression of health beliefs. The model was designed to predict a person’s health behavior, including the use of health services, and to justify intervention to alter maladaptive health behavior. Components of the model include the person’s own perception of susceptibility to a disease or condition, the perceived likelihood of contracting that disease or condition, the perceived severity of the consequences of contracting the condition or the disease, the perceived benefits of care and barriers to preventive behavior, and the internal or external stimuli that result in appropriate health behavior by the person”. (Mosby’s Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.) Part 1: Using the Health Belief Model (Figure 4-5 A and 4-5B), reflect and formulate your own health beliefs. In this assignment you will create a chart based upon Figures 4-5 A and B. Explore your own health beliefs by reviewing a present or past illness and formulate responses for: Perceived Susceptibility, Perceived Seriousness, Perceived Benefits: Taking Action, and Modifying Factors. Reflect briefly how your own cultural heritage is affecting your responses. Part 2: Conduct a telephone interview of someone you know from a different ethnic or cultural group. Using Table 4.1 (A Tool for the Personal Assessment of the Patient during the Four Stages of Illness), write their responses to their experience of an illness. Submit both tables to the dropbox as an attachment BOOK is Spector, R., (2012). Cultural diversity in health and illness (8th ed). Pearson ISBN #: 978-0132840064 Read Chapters 3 & 4 pgs 43-83