PHAR 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Teachable Moment, Childhood Obesity, Health Belief Model
18 Feb 2017
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Health promotion is a general philosophy that says that good health, or wellness, is a personal and collective achievement. It is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and improve, their health. Health behaviours are behaviours undertaken by people to enhance or maintain their health. A health habit is a health-related behaviour that is firmly established, automatic, and resistant to change. These habits usually develop in childhood and begin to stabilize around age 11 or 12. Wearing a seat-belt, brushing your teeth, eating a healthy diet. Health habit can be highly resistant to change. Thus it is good to establish good health behaviours and get rid of the poor ones early in life. A study was conducted of people in california (belloc and breslow). These two scientists first defined seven important good health habits: No more than one or two alcoholic drinks every day.
