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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2013, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (1): 70-76.

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Application of Health Belief Model in tuberculosis area

FANG Hong-xia, QIN Yu-bao, WANG Xu, XIE Hai-bo, SUN Yan-bo, LI Fa-bin, YAN Xing-lu, HONG Feng, HE Xiao-xin, CHANG Chun, ZHAN Si-yan   

  1. Department of Epidemiology and Bio-statistics, Peking University Health Science Center (*Part-time Postgraduate Student, Preventive and Control Office, Heilongjiang Province Tuberculosis Control Center) Beijing 100091,China
  • Received:2012-09-12 Online:2013-01-10 Published:2013-04-03
  • Contact: ZHAN Si-yan E-mail:siyan-zhan@bjmu.edu.cn

Abstract: The Health Belief Model(HBM)is a theoretical model that was generated in 1950,which uses social psychology method to explain the health-related behaviors. It contributes to helping people produce health promotion behavior and abandon health-risky behavior and to forecast the health behavior. At present, HBM had been widely used in many areas include tuberculosis. In tuberculosis area abroad, HBM had been applied in case finding (screening and diagnose), treatment, prevention and health education and so on, among which, patient’s diagnosis was more applied. In addition, its theoretical model was also improved in the actual continuously application. HBM had been applied in treatment (adherence and care) in China.

Key words: Tuberculosis, pulmonary, Models, theoretical, Health promotion, Health behavior