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health belief model  

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  • What does it take for people to act to protect themselves from illness? This is the fundamental question posed by the framers of the Health Belief Model (HBM), and it has continued to be addressed by researchers over the past five decades in the disciplines of public health, health psychology, and health education. Background The HBM was originally developed by Godfrey Hochbaum, Irwin Rosenstock, and other research psychologists in the U.S. Public Health Service in the early 1950s as they applied cognitive and learning theory to understanding and predicting health behavior. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Health Belief Model]

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