Walque Risking Your Health 9780821399064

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Автор: Walque
Название: Risking Your Health
ISBN: 9780821399064
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Медицина: общие вопросы

Здравоохранение и профилактическая медицина

ISBN-10: 0821399063
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 192
Вес: 0.32 кг.
Дата издания: 30.12.2013
Серия: Human development perspectives
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Illustrations
Размер: 226 x 152 x 15
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Medicine: general issues,Public health & preventive medicine, MEDICAL / Health Policy
Подзаголовок: Causes, consequences, and interventions to prevent risky behaviors
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Behaviours that pose risks for an individual’s health and that also represent important threats for public health, such as drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex, are highly prevalent in low income countries, even though they are traditionally associated with richer countries. Individual choices are an important part of the risky behaviours. Risking Your Health: Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors explore how those choices are formed and what are their consequences. Why do people engage in risky behaviours? Many different explanations have been proposed by psychology, sociology, economics or public health. One trait common to all these behaviours is that there is a disconnect – a function of both delay and uncertainty - between the pleasure or satisfaction provided by them and their consequences. Another characteristic of risky behaviours is that they rarely occur in isolation. Peer-pressure, parental influences, networks and social norms often play an important role in initiating, continuing, or quitting those behaviours. Even if they might often be the first to suffer, the consequences of risky behaviours are also rarely limited to the individuals engaging in them. In certain cases, such as second-hand smoking or HIV transmission, the link is direct. In other cases, the link is less direct but not necessarily less real: the long term health consequences of many of these behaviours are costly to treat and could stretch households’ finances and worsen poverty. Finally, these risky behaviours have consequences for society as a whole since they often trigger a non-trivial amount of public health expenditures and lead to declines in aggregate productivity through premature death and morbidity. Changing behaviours is tricky -- public health interventions via legislation with strong enforcement mechanisms can be more effective than simple communication campaigns informing consumers about the risks associated with certain behaviours, since translating knowledge into concrete changes in behaviour seems to be hard to achieve. Economic mechanisms such as taxes (especially on alcohol and tobacco products), subsidies (such as free condoms), and conditional/unconditional cash transfers are also used to reduce risky behaviours (for example in HIV prevention). Of great interest to policy makers, academics and practitioners, this book assesses the efficiency of those interventions designed to reduce the prevalence of behaviours that endanger health.

Risking Your Health, Walque