Background
Gender differences often effect on taking preventive health measures, access to health care centers, taking medicines and adherence to treatment or followHealth care seeking behavior (HCSB) referred to activities that are performed with the aim of maintaining and promoting health, preventing illness or to deal with any deviation from good health [There are few studies that have specifically examined the HCSB and related factors in reproductive age women, and most of them lacked theoretical framework interventions. However, a theoretical model can help the health educators in various ways, including gathering information in the stage of needs assessment, program development and create tailored content to improve the desired behavior, as well as program evaluation. A theory or model helps to identify the characteristics of the individual and the living environment that somehow affect her/his behaviors and thus increase the effectiveness of health education programs [