Behavior is associated with health and disease, health related behavior of an individual is very important to ensure good health for him or her. For example a person maintaining personal hygiene is health related behavior and it effects his or her health.
Behavior of one individual leaves impact on another person’s health for example impact of passive smoking behavior of groups influence physical and social environment which ultimately has an impact on health.
For example when a community decides to use carpooling system to travel to work place it has an impact on Environment pollution and pollution levels come down which ultimately improve our health.
Health behavior is any behavior that has or might have implications for health of an individual. The actions or reactions of individual to a situation and this can be conscious or unconscious voluntary or involuntary. Gochman considers that personal attributes such as believes Expectations motives values perceptions influence a person’s health behavior. The lifestyle diseases are on risk in India which has a strong connection with the behavioral determinants of health. Lifestyle includes the way that people live reflecting a range of social values attitudes and activities. This is constituted of cultural and behavioral patterns and lifelong personal habits for example alcoholism that are developed through the process of socialization lifestyles are learnt through social interactions and mass media many of the current health problems has conditions like cancer obesity etc. are associated with Lifestyle that the individual follows.
- Some need to focus on the indirect behavior route of disease.
- Behavior contributes to 50% of the leading cause of disease which is followed by 20% cause from environment 20% cost from biology and rest to 10% due to poor access to health care services.
Individual Behavior Swear depending upon three factors as follows:-
- Emotional depositions:- They are the physiological process involved in both the experience and expression.
- Generalized expectancies :- Psychological process involved in formulating expectation in relation to the Future outcomes.
- Explanatory styles:- Psychological process involved in explaining the cause of negative events.