Health Behaviors
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This chapter defines health behaviors as any activity undertaken for the purpose of preventing or detecting disease or for improving health and well being. Common ways of classifying different health behaviors (e.g., health enhancing, health impairing) are examined. Prevalence of key health behaviors (smoking, diet, exercise, screening, sexual behaviors, alcohol use) in different groups and their relationship to morbidity and mortality is reported. The chapter then examines the role of cognitive variables (such as health beliefs, attitudes, selfefficacy) as described in psychological models in understanding the distribution/prevalence of health behaviors. The final section examines the use of such models in changing health behaviors.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004