Family determinants of health behaviors

Hospital (1996) pointed out that the various categories of actions taken by people in their daily life significantly affects their welfare. In order to continue good health practices of behavior is inevitable, in which health behavior includes all actions that are the primary preventive value of disease. Some of these factors are eating habits, sleep duration, mass, weekend trips, and avoiding smoking, among others (clinic, 1996). In the context of families, many preventive measures are available that can effectively be used to maintain the benefits. In this case, behavior change theory has proved useful in focusing on family determinants of risky behavior. The main aspects of health behaviors and risk behaviors will be adequately addressed in this work (clinic, 1996).

First, behavior change theory is based on facts and statistics from the intensive research conducted on aspects of behavior in the family. In this sense, different aspects of family health behaviors and risk behaviors were family illustrates this theory. Precisely, the theory deals with deep issues of physical activity and nutrition behavior (clinic, 1996). In this case, the theory is very appropriate in informing people about the importance of healthy eating and healthy physical activity. Despite the many challenges and criticisms to the theory of its development, many scholars have realized its applicability in providing family health behavior and health risk avoidance (Clinic, 1996).