Highlights the relationship between health and behaviour

1. HEALTH AND BEHAVIOUR

2. BEHAVIOURAL IMMUNOGENS AND PATHOGENS

3. BEHAVIOURAL IMMUNOGENS AND PATHOGENS

4. POTENTIAL IMPACT OF ADOPTING A HEALTHY LIFE STYLE

5. LONGEVITYAND SPAN OF HEALTHY LIFE

6. LIFE SPAN

7. LIFE STYLE FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO LONGEVITY

8. DISABILITYADJUSTED LIFE EXPECTANCY

9. PREVENTING INJURY AND DISEASE

10. FACTORS DETERMINING HEALTHY BEHAVIOURS:
BIOLOGICAL FACTORS

11. PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS

12. PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS
• Childhood agreeableness and conscientiousness influenced adult health status mediated
by healthy eating habits and smoking ( Hampson, Goldberg, Vogt and Debaniski, 2007)
– A population based longitudinal study of personality and health spanned over 40 years
from childhood to midlife.
• Constellation of adolescent personality traits (with developmental origins from
childhood) did link to different health risk behaviours at 21 (Capsi et al, 1997) – A study
that followed individuals from infancy till age 21.
• The study also determined that associations between personality and health risk
behaviours show the same personality type in different but related behaviours . For
example, low Conscientiousness and low Agreeableness were uniformly associated with
alcohol , tobacco consumptions and speedy behaviours .

13. SOCIAL FACTORS

14. THEORIES OF HEALTH BEHAVIOUR

15. THEORIES OF HEALTH BEHAVIOUR

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