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Essentials of Health Behavior 2nd Edition by Mark Edberg
Edition 2ISBN: 978-1449698508Essentials of Health Behavior 2nd Edition by Mark Edberg
Edition 2ISBN: 978-1449698508 Exercise 2
What is the goal of the field of study concerned with health behavior?
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Gochman described health behavior as the personal attributes, which is related to the health management, health restoration and health improvement. Attributes can be beliefs, behavior, personality traits, expectations, motives, values, and perceptions. Three categories of health behavior are preventive illness behavior, health behavior as well as sick-role behavior.
The goal of the study of health behavior is to correlate the health and behavior of an individual. These behavioral attributes can help them in the field of healthcare and medical sciences. The goal of these studies is to implement programs and interventions that seek to promote behavioral changes to improve the health of the people.
Some of these programs are well-known like the anti-smoking campaign, anti-drug or anti-alcohol programs, and warning about the harmful and addictive substances on the products. Awareness programs of various infectious or communicable diseases are also common.
Promotion of healthy lifestyle, food habits and physical exercises are an essential part of the health behavioral change. Most of these programs and interventions are based on the studies on the human health behavior and lifestyle. These studies focus on the behavioral attributes, which can influence the health of an individual.
The goal of the study of health behavior is to correlate the health and behavior of an individual. These behavioral attributes can help them in the field of healthcare and medical sciences. The goal of these studies is to implement programs and interventions that seek to promote behavioral changes to improve the health of the people.
Some of these programs are well-known like the anti-smoking campaign, anti-drug or anti-alcohol programs, and warning about the harmful and addictive substances on the products. Awareness programs of various infectious or communicable diseases are also common.
Promotion of healthy lifestyle, food habits and physical exercises are an essential part of the health behavioral change. Most of these programs and interventions are based on the studies on the human health behavior and lifestyle. These studies focus on the behavioral attributes, which can influence the health of an individual.
Essentials of Health Behavior 2nd Edition by Mark Edberg
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