Social Ecological Model ( Sem )

This paper discusses how IOM’s ecological model can be used to stop the AIDs pandemic which is a health issue globally. This is because the number of people infected with the disease has increased over the years, since the first case was reported. Statistics show that over 34 million people are infected globally. The disease has been declared a pandemic due to the effects it has caused globally. Therefore, urgency is needed to stop its spread by reducing the rate of infection.

The Health Belief Model (HBM) of health behaviour change was originally developed in the 1950s in order to understand and explain why vaccination and screening programs being implemented at the time were not meeting with success (Edberg 2007). It was later extended to account for preventive health actions and illness behaviours (Roden 2004). Succinctly, it suggests that behaviour change is influenced by an individuals’ assessment of the benefits and achievability of the change versus the cost of it (Naidoo and Wills 2000).

The healthy belief method was demonstrated with this study. The study demonstrated that the impact of health beliefs on behavior showed a direct relationship between health

The concept behind the Health Belief Model is to motivate/encourage people to take positive actions that will lead them towards making better decisions (ReCAPP, NEED DATE). There are four constructs (P’s) followed by two concepts in the Health Belief Model which include the following: Perceived Susceptibility, Perceived Severity, Perceived benefits, Perceived barriers, cues to action, and self-efficacy (Glanz, Rimer, Viswanath, 2008).

Hispanics and Latin-Americans are the largest ethnic minority in the US. They report the lowest amount of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) with only 26% of them meeting the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, in comparison to 38% of non-Latino whites. The Social Ecological model proposes that physical activity (PA) behaviors are affected at multiple levels, as well as the social environments. The aim of this study is to explain and examine the social ecological model of PA among Mexican-Americans residing in the US-Mexico border in San Diego, California. The authors hypothesis were the following: (1) adjustment to culture would have a positive impact on LTPA, (2) social relations in the neighborhood would have an impact on neighborhood

The social ecological model is a four-level framework that helps understand the factors that impact violence and it focuses on individual, relationship, community, and societal factors (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). The focal point is to understand how to prevent violence and it does this by expressing risk and protective factors. In a study conducted by Cummings, Gonzalez-Guarda, and Sandoval (2012), they reviewed risk and protective factors in 29 published articles presenting data on Hispanics who have experienced IPV.

The Health Belief Model is another health behavior theory. It states that health behavior is determined by the individual’s beliefs and perceptions about a disease and the strategies that decrease its occurrence (Hayden, 2014). Some of the factors that contribute to the individual’s perception are knowledge, attitude, belief,

Researchers determined long ago the importance of creating a model that promotes health, health literacy, and positive changes. The Health Belief Model (HBM) was created in the 1950’s to explore preventative measures for disease (Pender, Murdaugh, & Parsons, 2015, p. 29). At the time, officials were concerned about the spread of communicable disease and certain cancers. The theory assumed that individual behaviors were based off negative and positive sources regarding a specific change (Pender et al., 2015, p. 29). This means that patients have a degree of perceived susceptibility that causes them to evaluate the positive or negative effects of changing the behavior. If the threat is low,

1. Take a moment to look over the CAPI (posted online) items. How do they relate to the risk factors described in your reading or in class? Are some risk factors represented more or less than others?

As we learned in class, identifying is gay is a little difficult to manage in society. When one identifies as gay, they will not have as much social support as straight people. Looking at the social ecological model, when it comes to their microsystem, they do tend to have more visible social support from their families. For example, the sister was willing to donate one her eggs to them so they can have children. Looking at their mesosystem, the husband of the surrogate mother was very supportive of them keeping their children but the hospital did not show much support. The hospital would not treat the gay parents as part of the hospital since they were not genetically related to the surrogate mother or child. Another thing the parents would

Human behavior plays a central role in the maintenance of health, and also in the prevention of diseases. Health professionals therefore, have brought out various models of behavior changes to guide and reduce behaviors that increase health risk, and facilitate effective adaptation to and coping with illness and also to guide strategies in developing protective actions. Models of health behavior have been developed to promote health and the different models of population health show the various factors that influence health.

Although the importance of preventive health cares, many people do not behave in a manner that will look after their own health. The Health Belief Model (HBM) is one relevant theory that claims to predict or control health behaviour .HBM was developed by researchers at US Public Health Service in 1974. Since the last comprehensive review in 1974, the Health Belief Model has continued to be the focus of considerable theoretical and research attention (Janz N,Becker MH,1984 and Harrison JA.el .MullerPD,1992 ) in long and short term behaviour, including risk sexual risk of behaviour and transmission of HIV/AID .This study is include

In the areas of GBV prevention and intervention the Ecological Model is a comprehensive approach that can be utilized. I will use the social ecological model to address sexual assault and more generally GBV as a public health issue for community. The social ecology standpoint takes into account the welfare of the inhabitants at large by exploring “the relationship between individual and contextual factors and considering violence as the product of multiple levels of influence on behaviour ….. Grounded in the science of human ecology, the social ecological framework focuses on the inter-relationships among human beings and their environments. According to the model, the individual

The Health Belief Model (HBM) is one of the first theories of health behavior. It was developed in the 1950s by social psychologists in the U.S. Public Health Services to better understand the widespread failure of tuberculosis screening programs. Today it continues to be one of the most widely used theories. Research studies use it to explain and predict health behaviors seen in individuals. There is a broad range of health behaviors and subject populations that it is applied in. The concepts in the model involve perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues to action, and self-efficacy. Focusing on the attitudes and beliefs of individuals being studied create an understanding of their

Health belief model was one of the first and most widely recognized theories of health behavior. (Butts & Rich, 2011). This theory was formulated in an attempt to predict health behaviors by focusing on the attitude and beliefs of individuals. It is aimed to determine the likelihood of an individual to participate in health-promotion and disease prevention programs. (Kozier & Erb, 2011). This theory postulated that if a patient is well- motivated, there is a possibility that he will participate in these activities. Motivation can be derived by the individual's perceptions towards his condition. According to Becker (1974), individual perceptions include patient's perceived susceptibility, perceived seriousness of the disease and perceived threat.