Action on Smoking and Health

The Health Belief Model is commonly used for health promotion and health education. Its’ underlying concept is that health behavior is explained by perception of the disease and the strategies available to lower its occurrence. There are four perceptions of the HBM, which are perceived seriousness, perceived benefit, perceived susceptibility and perceived barriers. In addition to that, more constructs are added to health belief model that includes motivating factor, cues to action and self-efficacy

This theory is one of the first theory that emerged in solving health related behaviour. It attempts to anticipate and explain the behavioural effects on an individual’s health. The theory is driven by the attitude and the beliefs of the individuals. HBM is a good model to for informing people about the negative consequences of health related behaviour. The idea is that someone will be very adamant to take an health related action if they realise and perceive the negative impact of their behaviour

The core of the Health Belief Model is emphasizes on individual’s perceptions of risks and benefits of the maladaptive behavior they are exhibiting, modifying factors and probability of action (Bastable, 2014). Reisi et al. (2014) postulate that the Health Belief Model can be a useful tool in assessing predictors to smoking and establishing programs that help promote smoking prevention. Becker argued that treatment and subsequent accomplishment of disease prevention along with the patient’s belief

The Ottawa Charter is a global health promotion run by the world Health Organisation. It involves five action areas called developing personal skills, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, reorienting health services and building healthy public policies. To combat lung cancer and other health risks the Australian government launched The National Tobacco 2011 Campaign to raise awareness of smoking through the five action areas to reduce the number of daily smokers by 2018

Although smoking is seen as a right of freedom, it has numerous consequences that not only damage smokers. According to David M. Ludington, “Cigarette smoke is the most dangerous of the toxic elements in our environment. Smoking is responsible for almost 500 000 deaths each year in the United States” (1). For the reason that many citizens are not well informed with the effects of smoking, the United States has a high death rate per year. The act of smoking in public should be banned, for it can influence

Following this, (2) The Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) was developed by both Martin Fishbein and Icek Ajzen, and it is one of the three classic persuasion models of psychology, and is also used in communication discourse as a theory of understanding persuasive messages. It explains the relationship between attitudes and behaviors with human action. This theory is also used to predict how people will behave based on his/hers pre-existing attitudes and behavioral intentions. The decision to engage

used? Science and medical reports have proven that smoking cigarettes has the potential to subject the individual to several life-threatening health effects such as lung cancer, COPD, Emphysema, cardiovascular disease, and an increased risk of stroke. Through the years, many global advertising campaigns and organizations like Action on Smoking and Health, American Lung Association, and American Cancer Society have been working to put a stop to smoking and the tobacco industry. In order to prevent future

behaviour change that have been used in recent national health education campaigns, I will be explaining what the campaigns are about, how they target particular audience groups and why. Most health education campaigns are to educate the community on how to lead healthier lives, why and to live for longer, this is done through trying to educate them to change their unhealthy life styles or habits and chose healthier opinions. The first national health education campaign I will be explain is the ‘Change4Life’

Smoking-Get Rid of it Smoking in society is a problem. Teen smoking rates have decreased greatly in the last few years, however, smoking in adults has increased at an earlier age. Smoking is bad for a person’s health. Health problems and addictions are not only affecting the health of society, but also sending them into debt. A way should be found to prevent the need for smoking or for a non-harmful cigarette to be created. Smoking is harmful to your health, your wallet, as well as the environment

Purpose The Health Belief Model theory has helped individuals become educated on how important it is to be know about one’s health. According to Hayden (2014), the Health Belief Model was created in the 1950’s by researchers at the U.S. Public Health Service. These researchers were Irwin M. Rosenstock, and Godfrey M. Hochbaum. The purpose of this particular model was to help individuals catch and prevent diseases or illnesses. Hayden (p. 64, 2014) states that “although public health practitioners