PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Teachable Moment, Health Promotion, Prospect Theory

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Health promotion: general philosophy that has at its core that good health, or wellness, is a personal and collective achievement. Importance of health behaviours: smoking, poor diets, inactivity are the leading social/ behavioural risks attribute half the deaths in canada. What are they: health behaviours are undertaken by ppl wishing to enhance and maintain their health, health habit: health related behaviour that is firmly established and performed automatically without awareness. Instilling good habits and ridding the bad ones: taking measures to combat risk factors for illness before an illness ever has a chance to develop. Most common, helps ppl alter their problematic behaviours. Keep children from developing them in the first place: more recent. Factors influencing health behaviours: socio-economic factors: Ppl with higher education have less stress and high social support as opposed to low classers: age. Habits good in childhood, deteriorate in adolescence, improve again in older ppl: gender. Girls more nutrious than boys in school.

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