Select a chronic health condition affecting adults in the United States today.

1a. After reviewing the background materials and your own research, elaborate on the various factors that affect the worsening of chronic diseases.

1b. After conducting your own research, elaborate on how evidence-based interventions can be properly be disseminated via health education to reduce the impact of the chronic disease (ex. diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, heart disease etc.) that you choose to focus for this discussion thread.

sources:
*choose any 2 scholarly articles

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Select a chronic health condition affecting adults in the United States today. Write one question for each of the five stages of change to determine a person’s readiness to change and their perception about the illness using the Health Belief Model?

Sources:
Bedoya, D. (2020, October 3). The Health Belief Model [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knedre8Ul60 (4:37)

Glanz, K., Rimer, B. K., & Viswanath, K. (Eds.). (2015). Health behavior: Theory, research, and practice