Risking Your Health

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ISBN: 0821399063
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Risking Your Health: Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors (Human Development Perspectives)

Behaviors that pose risks for an individual's health and that also represent important threats for public health, such as drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex, are highly prevalent in low income countries, even though they are traditionally associated with richer countries. Download Risking Your Health medical books for free.
Individual choices are an important part of the risky behaviors, yet how are those choices formed? Why do people engage in risky behaviors? Many different explanations have been proposed by psychology, sociology, economics or public health. One trait common to all these behaviors is that there is a disconnect between the pleasure or satisfaction provided by them and their consequences. This disconnect is both a function of delay and Get Risking Your Health our bestseller medical books.

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Individual choices are an important part of the risky behaviors, yet how are those choices formed? Why do people engage in risky behaviors? Many different explanations have been proposed by psychology, sociology, economics or public health This disconnect is both a function of delay and

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