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Risky Behaviours

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Mounting evidence indicates that behaviours are important contributors to disease onset and progression. Through behaviour change, many diseases are preventable. The biological, psychological, social and environmental factors that affect people’s health vary throughout the lifespan, causing individuals to face different health risks as they develop. Understanding what determine the development and maintenance of risky behaviours, who engage in them and how these behaviours explain health outcomes can lead to more effective health promotion strategies, focusing on at-risk populations for better global health. This chapter defines risky behaviours as any activities that will raise the probability of adverse health outcomes. A selection of major risky behaviours (obesity, sedentary behaviour and physical activity, unhealthy diet, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, unsafe sexual practice and non-adherence to recommended cancer screening and vaccination) which have global spread and implications for chronic diseases is reviewed and discussed. Emphasis is given to comparing and contrasting the differences among these risky behaviours in the context of developed and developing countries. The purposes of this chapter are to (1) describe the characteristics of some of the risky behaviours that are commonly responsible for increased mortality and burden of diseases; (2) summarize what is known about the interrelationships among health risk behaviours and health outcomes; (3) examine the global distribution of risk behaviours across the human lifespan, and between different subgroups in the populations; and (4) understand the multilevel ecological determinants that contribute to the development and maintenance of these risk behaviours with an emphasis on at-risk populations.

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