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Health Behaviors

This document discusses health behaviors and approaches to changing them. It defines health behaviors as actions undertaken to maintain or improve health. Healthy habits formed in childhood tend to continue automatically. The document emphasizes that childhood is a key time to instill good health habits through parents' influence. It also discusses models for understanding health behaviors, like the health belief model and theory of planned behavior. Finally, it lists cognitive-behavioral methods that can be used to change health behaviors.

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Health Behaviors

This document discusses health behaviors and approaches to changing them. It defines health behaviors as actions undertaken to maintain or improve health. Healthy habits formed in childhood tend to continue automatically. The document emphasizes that childhood is a key time to instill good health habits through parents' influence. It also discusses models for understanding health behaviors, like the health belief model and theory of planned behavior. Finally, it lists cognitive-behavioral methods that can be used to change health behaviors.

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Health Behaviors

Ivan Suneel Samuel


Forman Christian College
Lahore

What are health


behaviors?

Health behaviors are behaviors


undertaken by people to enhance or
maintain their health

A healthy habit is a health related


behavior that is firmly established and
often performed automatically, without
awareness. (develop in childhood and
stabilize around 11 to 12 years)

What are health


behaviors?

Instilling good health habits and changing


poor ones is the task of primary prevention.
Intervening with children and adolescents:
Health habits are strongly affected by early
socialization, especially the influence of
parents as role models
Teachable moment refers to the fact that
certain times are better for teaching health
practices (childhood)
Window of vulnerability: junior high school

1.
2.

Intervention with at risk people


Health promotion and the elderly
Ethnic and gender differences in
health risks and habits
CHANGINR HEALTH HABITS
Educational appeals
Fear appeals

The health belief model

The model states that whether a


person practices a particular health
behavior can be understood by
knowing two factors: the degree to
which the person perceives a
personal health threat and the
perception that a particular health
practice will be effective in reducing
that threat.

Self-Efficacy and health


behaviors

Self efficacy; the belief that one is


able to control ones practice of a
particular behavior.
Theory of planned behavior:
According to this theory of Ajzen, a
health behavior is the direct result of
behavioral intention.
Behavioral intentions have three
components:

Three components
1.

2.

3.

Attitudes towards the action are based


on the beliefs about the likely outcomes
Subjective norms are what a person
believes others think that person should
do and the motivation to comply
Perceived behavioral control is when an
individual needs to feel that he or she is
capable of performing the action
contemplated and the action undertaken
will have the desired effect

Cognitive-Behavioral
approaches to health
behavior change

Self observation/monitoring
Classical conditioning
Systematic desensitization
Operant conditioning
Modeling
Contingency contracting
Self talk
Cognitive restructuring
Behavioral assignments
Relaxation training

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