PSY333H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Periodontitis, Teachable Moment, Health Belief Model
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Chapter 3 health behavior and primary prevention. For the individual, health promotion involves teaching developing a program of good health habits early in life and carrying them throughout. For the medical practitioner, health promotion involves teaching people how best to achieve this healthy lifestyle and helping people at risk to learn behaviors to offset or monitor these risks. For the psychologist, health promotion involves the development of interventions to help people practice healthy behaviors and change poor ones. Nearly half the deaths in canada are caused by modifiable behaviors, with smoking, poor diet and inactivity as the leading social/behavioral risk factors. Health behaviors are behaviors undertaken by people to enhance or maintain their health. Health habit is a health-related behavior that is firmly established and often performed automatically, without awareness: habits usually develop in childhood, stabilize around 11 or 12, ex.
