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Essentials of Health Behavior 2nd Edition by Mark Edberg

Edition 2ISBN: 978-1449698508
book Essentials of Health Behavior 2nd Edition by Mark Edberg cover

Essentials of Health Behavior 2nd Edition by Mark Edberg

Edition 2ISBN: 978-1449698508
Exercise 1
What types of broad factors exist in the ecological model?
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Health concerns can drive the good health behavior with or without the overall behavioral attributes of an individual. The person's own standards of health can influence the measure he takes for the healthy lifestyle.
The lists of health, behavioral actions, which are motivated by certain factors of ecological model, are as follows:
1. Individual factors- It includes awareness and information (drink boiled water to avoid microbial infection) and biophysical characterization (management of routine according to the health concerns being characterized by the medical checkup).
2. Social or cultural factors- It includes lifestyle of close ones (peer pressure may make use of drugs or tobacco products) and cultural attitude, beliefs (inbreeding in certain tribes can cause a higher incidence of recessive traits in the population).
3. Environmental factors- It includes environmental risk (high pollution can force people to wear masks while playing outside).
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