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Which of the value-expectancy theories do you believe will add the most value to health promotion efforts when combined with the PRECEDE-PROCEED framework? Provide support for your reasoning.

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                                                                CLASSMATE’S POST
In order to decide which of the value-expectancy theories adds the most value to health promotion efforts when combined with the Precede-Proceed framework, one must first under what a value-expectancy theory is. Value-expectancy theories focus on aspects of perception, beliefs, and expectations that one may have versus just the physical benefits of a given health behavior. Out of all the different value-expectancy theories, which all bring about different aspects, the best one to use in conjunction with Precede-Proceed framework would be the Information-Motivation-Behavior Skills Model. The Precede-Proceed framework is mostly used as a planning model in health promotion. The PPM framework focuses on an ecological approach to changing health behavior and it does so with full recognition that systems/environments control, facilitate, and limit health behaviors. It is important to know that the PPM is a planning framework, not a theory, which is where the IMB model comes in. The IBM model is composed of providing information, having a high degree of knowledge about the health behavior, motivation, the influence of a person’s attitude toward the health behavior and their motives to performs the behavior, and lastly, behavioral skills, the combination of self-efficacy and actual skill. This theory is useful because it implies that once one has the information about a health behavior, from there they will develop the motivation to think about how the health behavior affects them, which then results in one developing the behavioral skills necessary to deal with the health behavior. This theory helps in health promotion because knowing what one can do to improve their health behavior may be the push needed to make a change.