Health behaviours and lifestyles
Assignment notes:
- Keep target population in mind.
- MUST BE BASED ON KEY THEORY
- Defend key activities and justify.
- Make realistic, remember to CRITIQUE
- Outline link between issue and key population, other relating factors
- Identify what’s been done, what works REVIEW PAPERS
- Frame around <selected theory>
- SIMPLIFY FLOWCHART
- Identify implications of behaviour change
- Use headings (Rationale, design, evaluation)
- Acknowledge socio/political/social factors
Health behaviours:
That which is associated with health status regardless of current health or motivations (Morrison &
Bennett, 2016, p52)
Matarazzo (1984)
1. Behavioural pathogens
2. Behavioural immunogens
Historically and culturally sensitive and specific
Some behaviours good and bad
Health behaviours are complicated:
Longitudinal studies required to explore associations between behaviour and health
- Alameda country study (Belloc & Breslow, 1972) big 8
o Sleep 8 hours
o No smoke
o Drink little alcohol
o Regular exercise
o Don’t be overweight
o No snacking
o Eat breakfast
o One removed
- Housman & Dorman (2005) review
- Framingham Heart study (Christakis & Fowler, 2008)
5 most common causes of mortality
1. CVD
2. Stroke
3. Cancers
, 4. COPD
5. Lower respiratory infections
Health behaviours:
- WHO (2009) 8 risk factors associated with mortality and poor health:
1. Smoking
2. Drug use
3. Diet
4. physical inactivity
5. High blood pressure
6. High cholesterol
7. High BMI
8. High blood sugar
- These factors account for 61% of Cardiac deaths, over 75% of heart disease = 36% of global
deaths
Inequality in health distribution
- Over 2 million deaths from starvation
- Over 2 million deaths from obesity related heart issues
Smoking
- 3rd common psychoactive drug (1 = caffeine)
- 9% deaths can be attributed to smoking
- Negative marketing but tax income is vast
Prevalence
- Dropping overall in US + UK
- Men more likely than women
2006 Legislation:
- Smoking ban in public places
- Was this successful?
o Lung cancer incidences have actually increased
- Young men and women most likely to smoke
- Even though benefits from not smoking are well documented
Issues with smoking:
- E-cigarettes current concern, unclear of long-term effects
Issues:
Assignment notes:
- Keep target population in mind.
- MUST BE BASED ON KEY THEORY
- Defend key activities and justify.
- Make realistic, remember to CRITIQUE
- Outline link between issue and key population, other relating factors
- Identify what’s been done, what works REVIEW PAPERS
- Frame around <selected theory>
- SIMPLIFY FLOWCHART
- Identify implications of behaviour change
- Use headings (Rationale, design, evaluation)
- Acknowledge socio/political/social factors
Health behaviours:
That which is associated with health status regardless of current health or motivations (Morrison &
Bennett, 2016, p52)
Matarazzo (1984)
1. Behavioural pathogens
2. Behavioural immunogens
Historically and culturally sensitive and specific
Some behaviours good and bad
Health behaviours are complicated:
Longitudinal studies required to explore associations between behaviour and health
- Alameda country study (Belloc & Breslow, 1972) big 8
o Sleep 8 hours
o No smoke
o Drink little alcohol
o Regular exercise
o Don’t be overweight
o No snacking
o Eat breakfast
o One removed
- Housman & Dorman (2005) review
- Framingham Heart study (Christakis & Fowler, 2008)
5 most common causes of mortality
1. CVD
2. Stroke
3. Cancers
, 4. COPD
5. Lower respiratory infections
Health behaviours:
- WHO (2009) 8 risk factors associated with mortality and poor health:
1. Smoking
2. Drug use
3. Diet
4. physical inactivity
5. High blood pressure
6. High cholesterol
7. High BMI
8. High blood sugar
- These factors account for 61% of Cardiac deaths, over 75% of heart disease = 36% of global
deaths
Inequality in health distribution
- Over 2 million deaths from starvation
- Over 2 million deaths from obesity related heart issues
Smoking
- 3rd common psychoactive drug (1 = caffeine)
- 9% deaths can be attributed to smoking
- Negative marketing but tax income is vast
Prevalence
- Dropping overall in US + UK
- Men more likely than women
2006 Legislation:
- Smoking ban in public places
- Was this successful?
o Lung cancer incidences have actually increased
- Young men and women most likely to smoke
- Even though benefits from not smoking are well documented
Issues with smoking:
- E-cigarettes current concern, unclear of long-term effects
Issues:
