The health belief model was developed at a time that our main focus was
on communicable and infectious diseases. It lacks the elements that the
Theory of Reasoned Action http://www.indstate.edu/nurs/mary/fish.gif  and
other have of habitual behavior and influences of the environment to make
it work well with chronic disease-related behaviors:

        From Lynn Lavallee

        As for the contradiction to the Health Belief Model that you
referenced
        (i.e. most smokers even the heavy ones know that the odds are
actually with
        them), I agree but it doesn't mean that the poor and marginalized
do not
        want to try to quit and that if they want to quit they shouldn't
be able to
        access resources that the 'unpoor' can.

Bill Ward

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