GRON575 - How would you utilize the Health Belief Model (HBM)

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1. How would you utilize the Health Belief Model (HBM) to develop a health promotion framework and address concerns related to programs and services for older adults, such as health promotion frameworks or behavioral intervention models?

(Examples of Health Belief Models: Is used to help understand people’s responses to symptoms and compliance with medical regimens. Health Belief Models (HBM) was developed to provide a systematic approach or methods to understand and predict one’s behavior relative to preventive strategies)

2. How would you address building a health promotion message utilizing Stages of Changes frameworks? such as (Examples of Stages of Changes: Pre-Contemplation, Contemplation, preparation/planning, Action, Termination, Maintenance follow-up)

3. What do you think the advantages and disadvantages of using a Theoretical Framework to build policies and programs would be?

4. How can you and your team utilize these frameworks to build healthy public policies for people growing older and older adults?

5. What media strategies would work well within your community to showcase issues or programs and services that people growing older or living with a disability could benefit from? ( Example: Issues to promote, Target Group/Aging Disability or both, Media Strategies to be used, Messages/Sound Bites to be Executed, Pyramid Statement.

6. Compare and contrast how you would use similar or different media strategies across the lifespan, to appeal and reach different demographic groups?