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health care reform movement

the social and political efforts to improve health and mental health care access, advance quality of care, and control health and mental health care costs.

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health–belief model

health–belief model

a model that identifies the relationships of the following issues to the likelihood of taking preventive health action: (a) individual perceptions about susceptibility to and seriousness of a disease, (b) sociodemographic variables, (c) environmental cues, and (d) perceptions of the benefits and costs. See also exercise–behavior model.