PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Elaboration Likelihood Model, Patient Education, Health Promotion
22 Apr 2013
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Why do we care: leading behavioral and social risk factors: A lot of behaviors we engage in are associated to health. We can look at who is at risk. Successful modification: reduce preventable deaths, delay time of death, delay onset and effects of chronic disease, reduce health care costs. Put less of a burden on health care systems, save 8111 Cut down on alcohol and develop cancer at 72 rather than 50, contribute to society better. Health behaviors: behaviors undertaken or avoided to enhance or maintain health. Health enhancing behaviours (eating regularly, going to bed early) Health compromising behaviours (contribute to illness: habit: firmly established and often performed automatically without awareness. Established early in life (by the time we are 11) Period of adolescence, sometimes the habits can go off track, life can throw us off. Our parents instilled in us eg. put on seatbelt, eg. brushing your teeth.
