PSYC-3556EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Automobile Safety, Smoking Cessation, Operant Conditioning
22 Jan 2018
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Any behaviour that may help to: prevent disease, detect disease, detect a disability at an early age, promote health, enhance health, protect from risk or injury. Positive health behaviours include: exercise, car safety, nutrition, taking advantage of medical and dental screening, mindfulness/meditation. Determinants of behaviour include: sociocultural and national factors, dictatorship countries. Legislative factors: age requirements (smoking and alcohol, macro-economic factors, taxes on tobacco and alcohol, systems of provisions and services, smoke-free environments reduce smoking levels. Behaviours stabilized around age 11-12: sleeping 7-8 hours a night, eating breakfast. Control of one self"s behaviours: smokers that believe they can quit, probably will. Belloc and breslow: belloc and enstrom, sleep 7-8 hours a night, eating breakfast daily, not smoking, not snacking. Social factors: learning, modeling, and social norms. Environmental influences: public health (fluoride in water) Preventative medical efforts: dental professionals (training and education) Primary prevention: actions that are taken to avoid disease or injury.
