Using the health belief model, how can nurses encourage patients to make immediate and permanent behavior changes; particularly as they relate to lifestyle choices?

Perceived severity is the degree to which the person attributes negative medical, clinical, or social consequences to being diagnosed with an illness. Together, perceived susceptibility and perceived severity provide motivation for reducing or eliminating such threats. The type of action taken depends on perceived benefits (beliefs about the effectiveness of different actions) and perceived barriers (potential negative aspects of particular actions). People are thought to weigh an action's effectiveness in reducing a health threat against possible negative outcomes The health promotion, have achieved through internal mechanisms intrinsic or three people, some of these are:
1. Self-care, ie, decisions and actions that the person performs for the benefit of their own health.
2. Mutual aid or that people do to help each other according to the situation they are living.
3. The creation of healthy environments or environmental conditions that promote health, such as healthy schools that constitute enhancers scenarios the capacities of children, in which health education and health promotion They are educational options for human development and values education in childhood.
The health promotion in addition to personal and behavioral considers as more comprehensive strategy for implementation and dissemination five interrelated basic components together, such as: building healthy public policy, creating favorable environments or environments, strengthening community action and social participation, developing personal skills for health promotion and reorienting health services.

One of the earliest theoretical models developed for understanding health behaviors was the health belief model (HBM;