ASSIGNMENT l WHAT IS HEALTH BEHAVIOUR.

Running head: HEALTH BEHAVIOUR
HEALTH BEHAVIOUR
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HEALTH BEHAVIOUR
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The health behavior identified in the target population of Kansas City is high rate of
obesity, poor diet, alcohol use, physical inactivity and smoking, which has led to heart disease. It
has adversely affected the health of the population. The heart disease includes several health
issues like coronary heart disease, arrhythmia and heart failure. Such disease affects human both
physically and mentally. Looking into the socio-ecological model of health behaviour, it
emphasize with the environment uses social and psychological influence. The concept of the
socio-economic model rely upon the fact that health behaviour has various level of influences
which includes intrapersonal (psychological and biological), organizational, physical
environment, community, policy and interpersonal (social and cultural) (Ma et al., 2017).
The two level of socio-ecological model selected to analyses the way through which the health
behavior are affected are as follow:
1. Intrapersonal (psychological and biological): The level basically deal with the
biological and psychological factors (Lynch, 2019). The health behaviour of smoking
excessive use of alcohol, poor diet negatively affects the biological functioning of the
body. Smoking poses an adverse impact on lungs, which can even lead to cancer. Poor
diet and physical inactivity can make the body weak and unable to perform metabolism.
Obesity is one of the major causes of lethal disease like cardiovascular complication,
diabetes and hypertension. Such health behaviour also has undesirable effect on the
psychology of human being (Bhupathiraju & Hu, 2016). Obese person may undergo
humiliation, as they are unable to perform their daily living activities and become burden
on family. Excessive alcohol use, poor diet and lack of physical activity can make the
person mentally disturb. It is known fact that good mental health reside in good health.