What are some of the most common behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death? And is there anything we can do to change our likelihood of death from a particular cause?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The behaviors that are responsible for most deaths in the United States are: using tobacco, a sedentary lifestyle, drinking alcohol and an unhealthy diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Health behaviors are considered to be modifiable determinants of health – that is, you can change them! But how can people change these common behaviors? The field of health education uses several theories to explain the process of making behavior change. What are some of the most common behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death? And is there anything we can do to change our likelihood of death from a particular cause? The behaviors that are responsible for most deaths in the United States are: using tobacco, a sedentary lifestyle, drinking alcohol and an … Continue reading “How can we improve our health?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slo1","tag-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-spring-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-spring-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-spring-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-spring-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-spring-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-spring-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-spring-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-spring-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-spring-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-spring-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 Health belief model – http:\/\/sphweb.bumc.bu.edu\/otlt\/MPH-Modules\/SB\/BehavioralChangeTheories\/BehavioralChangeTheories2.html<\/a>
\u2022 Theory of planned behavior – http:\/\/sphweb.bumc.bu.edu\/otlt\/MPH-Modules\/SB\/BehavioralChangeTheories\/BehavioralChangeTheories3.html<\/a>
\u2022 Social cognitive theory – http:\/\/sphweb.bumc.bu.edu\/otlt\/MPH-Modules\/SB\/BehavioralChangeTheories\/BehavioralChangeTheories5.html<\/a>
\u2022 Transtheoretical model or Stages of Change – http:\/\/sphweb.bumc.bu.edu\/otlt\/MPH-Modules\/SB\/BehavioralChangeTheories\/BehavioralChangeTheories6.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"