Describe a health promotion model used to initiate behavioral changes.

Describe a health promotion model used to initiate behavioral changes.

Describe a health promotion model used to initiate behavioral changes. How does this model help in teaching behavioral changes? What are some of the barriers that affect a patient’s ability to learn? How does a patient’s readiness to learn, or readiness to change, affect learning outcomes?

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HEALTH PROMOTION MODEL

Health promotion is the process whereby patients are encouraged to adopt healthy lifestyles choices through counseling, patient education, and support techniques. Examples of patients that need health promotion are those who are drug addicts, those that need to improve their nutrition and physical activity to improve, (Pender, 2011).

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