Health Education and Health Promotion International 2010

What? What is behavior? What is health behavior? What are health behaviors? What are not?

Why? Why study Health Behavior? Evidence from community trails Health, quality of life, human sustainable …

How How to study health behavior? Observation? Analyses?

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Selecting a specific behavior of interest 1. what is the behavior? How do it been observed (measured)? 2. Why you select the particular behavior? 3. select the risk factor(s) you think they might be and explain why do you think in this way 4. how do you associate the potential factors to the specific behavior? 5. Choose a popular behavior model (from the book or the TAAG file on the web site) and try to modify or refine your reasoning logic concerning the behavior and it correlates (risk factors) Thinking about some alternative(variables and models) that you think most fit your logic reasoning (you may want to create your own).

Our common beliefs Behavior and life style is an essential factor that affecting health Behavior can be altered/ modified through education Effective Health education programs should be well designed through assessment of the behavior and it related risk factors

Learning objectives After the completion of the designed course work, the learners should be able to: Identify the health behavior Identify the risk factors related to the behavior Associate the factors to the behavior based on some behavioral model.