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Focus on Health 10th Edition by Dale Hahn, Wayne Payne, Ellen Lucas
Edition 10ISBN: 9780073380896Focus on Health 10th Edition by Dale Hahn, Wayne Payne, Ellen Lucas
Edition 10ISBN: 9780073380896 Exercise 1
How close to "perfect" is the correlation between living a health-enhancing lifestyle as a young adult and the absence of chronic conditions later in life?
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In the year 1991, the US Department of Health and Human Services established the Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives which was a strategic plan that was focused on the improvement of the health of the American public. It enlisted 300 health objectives in 22 priority areas. However, the initiative gave rise to progress in a few areas while many areas recorded no progress. The plan was refined and was referred to as Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health. The main objectives of the plan were:
• To increase the quality of life and the years of life
• To eliminate the health disparities in areas of gender, race and ethnicity.
The plan succeeded to meet 356 of its objectives.
Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health was a national effort and there are local and state efforts which are directed towards addressing many health concerns but majority of the success of these plans depends upon the willingness of individuals to change aspects of their behavior which may be impossible or difficult for many individuals.
There are several factors that influence a person's desire to change their high-risk health behaviors:
• Knowing that a particular behavioral pattern is associated with a health problem.
• Belief that a particular behavioral pattern will make them susceptible to that health problem.
• Adoption of a risk-reduction intervention strategy which will reduce the risk of a particular health condition.
• A belief that the adoption of health-enhancing strategies is more reinforcing than the behaviors that are given up.
• The people that are significant to the individual believe that he/she should give up their high- risk health behaviors and provide support to that individual.
If all these conditions are not fulfilled the likelihood of reducing the high-risk health behaviors is greatly diminished.
Besides the inherent desire to give up high-risk health behaviors there are many other factors that affect our state of health from political to social. These factors are external, complex and very troublesome and have an impact on the generations to come. They are:
• Healthcare costs
• Environmental pollution
• Violence
• Occurrence of pandemics like the Avian flu or H1N1
• Prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV/ AIDS
• World hunger
• Over population
• Domestic and international terrorism
However, these factors are manageable. As individuals, we are capable of making choices that impact our lives which can reduce the likelihood of encountering the factors mentioned above. At a personal level we can choose to practice a healthy lifestyle which can lower the incidence of disease and illness, thus, extending our lifespan.
However, the correlation between adopting a health-enhancing lifestyle as a young adult and the absence of a chronic illness later on in life is close to 'imperfect' as many individuals may have a genetic predisposition to certain disorders and illnesses, there are many external circumstances that influence their state of health as well as the individuals adoption of certain high risk health behaviors and their willingness to refrain from these behaviors.
• To increase the quality of life and the years of life
• To eliminate the health disparities in areas of gender, race and ethnicity.
The plan succeeded to meet 356 of its objectives.
Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health was a national effort and there are local and state efforts which are directed towards addressing many health concerns but majority of the success of these plans depends upon the willingness of individuals to change aspects of their behavior which may be impossible or difficult for many individuals.
There are several factors that influence a person's desire to change their high-risk health behaviors:
• Knowing that a particular behavioral pattern is associated with a health problem.
• Belief that a particular behavioral pattern will make them susceptible to that health problem.
• Adoption of a risk-reduction intervention strategy which will reduce the risk of a particular health condition.
• A belief that the adoption of health-enhancing strategies is more reinforcing than the behaviors that are given up.
• The people that are significant to the individual believe that he/she should give up their high- risk health behaviors and provide support to that individual.
If all these conditions are not fulfilled the likelihood of reducing the high-risk health behaviors is greatly diminished.
Besides the inherent desire to give up high-risk health behaviors there are many other factors that affect our state of health from political to social. These factors are external, complex and very troublesome and have an impact on the generations to come. They are:
• Healthcare costs
• Environmental pollution
• Violence
• Occurrence of pandemics like the Avian flu or H1N1
• Prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV/ AIDS
• World hunger
• Over population
• Domestic and international terrorism
However, these factors are manageable. As individuals, we are capable of making choices that impact our lives which can reduce the likelihood of encountering the factors mentioned above. At a personal level we can choose to practice a healthy lifestyle which can lower the incidence of disease and illness, thus, extending our lifespan.
However, the correlation between adopting a health-enhancing lifestyle as a young adult and the absence of a chronic illness later on in life is close to 'imperfect' as many individuals may have a genetic predisposition to certain disorders and illnesses, there are many external circumstances that influence their state of health as well as the individuals adoption of certain high risk health behaviors and their willingness to refrain from these behaviors.
Focus on Health 10th Edition by Dale Hahn, Wayne Payne, Ellen Lucas
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