Health Behaviour Report: Analyzing Health Issues in Kansas City, USA

This report analyzes health behaviors in Kansas City, USA, identifying high rates of obesity, poor diet, alcohol use, physical inactivity, and smoking as key issues leading to heart disease. The report applies the socio-ecological model, examining both intrapersonal (psychological and biological) and community levels of influence. At the intrapersonal level, it discusses how unhealthy behaviors negatively affect biological functioning and mental health. At the community level, the report explores how these behaviors are viewed and accepted, highlighting the impact on social perceptions and interactions. The analysis includes references to several research studies to support the findings and provide a comprehensive understanding of the health issues and their societal implications.

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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.

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Hence, it can be said that such health behaviour have negatively affected by intrapersonal
level of socio-economic level.
2.
Community: The health behaviour identified also has negative affect on the community.
It is evident from the study of Person et al. (2016) that the community often neglects
people with unhealthy habit. The author also added that health behaviour which leads to
lethal health issue are not accepted by the community. The behaviour such as smoking
and excessive alcohol consumption is taken as unhealthy practices by the people and
regards them as unethical people. It is also known that smoking and drinking excessive
alcohol can cause cancer and liver dysfunction; people are in the perspective that
consequence of such behaviour can have adverse impact on the health and psychology of
other people. McCallum et al. (2016) has done research on the perspective of people,
where author found that community group gives respect to people who have good health
behaviour. People who have poor diet and does not encourage physical activity in their
life, are often seen as the major reason for transmission of immoral insight into the
population. Thus, from the review it can be said that people with unhealthy health
behaviour pose undesirable impression in the community.

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