EXHS155 English Health Behaviors Review

How many deaths in the US are caused by preventable factors, with smoking, obesity, drug abuse, and problem drinking being four of the main causes?

A general philosophy maintaining that health is a personal and collective achievement; the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. May occur through individual efforts, through interaction with the medical system, and through a concerted health policy effort.

Health habits are typically good in ___________?

Health habits typically deteriorate in ___________?

Persuasive messages that elicit too much fear may _________ health behavior change.

Many programs of cognitive-behavioral modification use _________ as the first step towards behavior change.

Which is not a step found in the tanstheoretical model of behavior change?

How long do many people stay in the contemplation stage?

__________ are a/an aspect(s) of one's life that interfere with practicing good health behaviors.

Social engineering has stepped in, requiring people to have _______ and to vaccinate their children.

_______________ approaches to health-habit change use principles of self-monitoring, classical conditioning, and operant conditioning

In what stage of change does a person have no intention of changing his or her behavior?

This stage of change occurs when people modify their behavior to overcome a problem

People go through ________ while trying to change their health.

Interventions designed to modify behavior that involves the removal of discriminative stimuli that evoke a behavior targeted for change and the substitution of new discriminative stimuli that will evoke a desired behavior.