HEALTH

Modern-day understanding of health was established on the individual’s gaining the behaviors that will protect, maintain and develop the status of goodness and also providing correct decisions related to his/her health (Kong, 1995). Therefore, individual should avoid the risky behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, using substance, nutritional behaviors, violence behaviors, unhealthy weight, communication problems with family and stress (Çimen, 2003). Only by avoiding these behaviors, individual can display behaviors of healthy life style. Healthy life style was defined as individual’s controlling the whole behaviors influencing his/her health and selecting the behaviors in conformed with the status of his/her health to regular daily activities (Tripp and Stachowiak, 1992; Walker, Sechrist and Pender, 1987). As a behavior, it indicates itself as playing sports sufficiently and regularly, eating healthily, not to smoke, responsibility of health, stress management and taking hygienic precautions (Esin, 1999). According to Pender (1992), behaviors of healthy life style are inner development, responsibility of health, exercise, nutrition, interpersonal relations and stress management. These factors are important on forming the behaviors of healthy life style particularly on the individuals working in public institute. According to World Health Organization (WHO), developing a healthy life style in workplace is possible with creating secure and healthy work environment; increasing the skills of self-confidence, inner power, job satisfaction and protecting the h