Florence Nightingale's Environment Theory ✔✔Impact of environment on health. Focus on

preventative care:

Wash hands etc.

Health Belief Model ✔✔Addresses the relationship between a person's beliefs and behaviors

1. Modifying variables

2. Perceived ability/susceptibility

3. Perceived Benefits vs Barriers

4. Cues to action

Modifying variables (HBM) ✔✔An individual's personal factors that affect whether the new

behavior is adopted

(Race, gender, age, economy and education)

Perceived ability and susceptibility of getting a disease ✔✔If they feel like they are more likely to

get it the more likely they will take action

Perceived Benefits vs Barriers of taking action ✔✔See more benefits than barriers then they will

take action, vice versa

Cues to action (HBM) ✔✔Factors that activate "readiness to change"

Advice from doctors, seeing advertisements, etc

Community-based nursing ✔✔Acute and chronic care of individuals and families to strengthen

their capacity for self-care and promote independence in decision making.

(Home health nurse)