In this free online course, you will learn how behavior change models are used to design health promotion programs. How do you persuade people to adopt healthy behaviors? It’s challenging! In this course, you will learn about three models of health behavior change that will help you meet that challenge. These models describe the intrapersonal factors that influence the choices people make about their health. You will learn how public health professionals use models like these to design effective health promotion and communication activities.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 195418 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Identify the constructs that comprise perceived threat • List three reasons that a person would feel susceptible • Compare perceived susceptibility to perceived severity • Create a health message to increase perceived susceptibility • Identify the two immediate influences on behavioral intention in the Theory of Reasoned Action • Distinguish between normative beliefs and behavioral beliefs • Discuss the role of perceived behavioral control in the Theory of Planned Behavior • List the five primary stages of the health behavior change in the Transtheoretical Model • Distinguish between the action and maintenance stages in the Transtheoretical Model • Select the correct stage of change based on the answers to staging questions • Describe an example of health promotion activities for a given stage of behavior change • Illustrate ways the Theory of Reasoned Action would explain a health behavior change |
| Course Code | 7409 |

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