Getting Specific: Actions to Reverse the Most Destructive Forces

Author: Jenkins, C. David

Source: Building Better Health: A Handbook of Behavioral Change, Building Better Health: A Handbook of Behavioral Change , pp. 287-330(44)

Publisher: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

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Abstract:

Better Health: A Handbook of Behavior Change is a one-of-a-kind manual for communities to reduce disease, disability, and premature death throughout the life cycle. This chapter of the book puts together the easy-to-say, but hard-to-implement, recommendations (such as how to cut down the prevalence of alcohol use in a community) and the principles of behavior change, and organizes them around mega risk factors -risks factors that operate around the world and each of which produces multiple diseases outcomes. Destructive risk forces as malnutrition, hunger epidemics, inadequate water supply, unsafe sex, alcohol use, sedentary lifestyle, and poverty, are analyzed along with corresponding preventive strategies.

Keywords: Health Promotion; Disease Prevention; Causes of death; Risk factors; Mortality; Education; Health Education; Personal behavior; Social behavior; Malnutrition; Hunger epidemics; Inadequate water supply; Unsafe sex; Alcohol; Sedentary lifestyle; Poverty