Health Behavior that affects the Community

Health
Behavior
Health Behavior that affects
the Community

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Pharmaceuticals
• Obesity, poor diet, use of
alcohol and lack of physical
activity leads to heart disease.
• The harsh conditions affect the
large population of Kansas City.
• The condition include coronary
heart disease, arrhythmia and
heart failure.
Introduction
Health Behavior in the target population of Kansas City

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Pharmaceuticals
Health Issue in
Community
• The Health behavior is
identified as high use of
alcohol, lack of exercise, poor
diet, obesity and smoking.
• The issues lead to
Cardiovascular Disease or
CVD.
• The rate of CVD among males
is 4.6% and 3.3% in females.
(Heart Disease Facts &
Health Issue in Kansas
City

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Impact on sociological Models
Intrapersonal level of socio-ecological model
• Deals mainly with the psychological and
biological factors in the community (Lynch,
2019).
• Excessive use of alcohol, smoking and poor
food habit negatively affects the BMI and
causes Obesity.
• Obesity causes CVD, Diabetes and
Hypertension .
• Psychologically, an obese person faces
humiliation.
Source: (Bhupathiraju & Hu, 2016).