Learning Objectives

• Define the term 'health behaviours'
• Explain the basic principles underlying health behaviours
• Explain factors that influence health related behaviours, and their effect of health behavioural change
• Describe the types of health models for behavioural changes and their applications and limitations

Health Behaviours

• what are health behaviours? examples?
• what are behavioural risk factors? examples?
• how does addressing behavioural risk factors help with disease risk?
• what are health habits?
• why are unhealthy behaviours hard to change?
• what are the main factors that influence health-related behaviours?
• how do these factors influence behaviour?

Models of Health Behaviours

• what are the stages of the transtheoretical model?
• what does the health belief model suggest that health behaviours are determined by?
• what does the health belief model not account for (3 things)?
• what are the 3 components of motivation?
• Health Belief Model Cases