Healthy Behaviors and Health Habits

Question 1

What are Health Behaviors

Answer 1

Behaviors that enhance or Maintain health

Question 2

What are Health Habits

Answer 2

behavior that is firmly established, automatic and very difficult to change.

Question 3

When are healthy habits developed?

Answer 3

Usually develop in early childhood and stabilize around 11 or 12

Question 4

Health education vs. Health promotion

Answer 4

Health Education
-Attempts to increase healthy behavior
Health Promotion
-becoming aware of health behaviors that pose threat to our future health or existing risks

Question 5

Interventions

Answer 5

Programs designed to assess and change health behaviors in order to:

• Decrease/delay death
• Improve quality of life
• Increase health behaviors
• Lower health costs

Question 6

What determines health behaviors

Answer 6

3 factors:
Biological
Psychological
Societal

Question 7

Barriers to modifying health behaviors

Answer 7

-Knowing when to intervene
-Incentives for practicing health behavior
-Lack motivation – Why?
-Instability of Health Behaviors
(Health habits controlled by different factors, may change over the history of the behavior, or across the lifespan)