Health Behavior and

Health Risk Factors

Health Behavior – is any activity undertaken for
the purpose of advertising or detecting disease or
for improving health and well-being.
Risk Factors – are behaviors or situations that
increase the possibility of developing disease.

2 Types of Risk Factors

1. Uncontrollable Risk Factor.

2. Controllable Risk Factor.
Uncontrollable Health Risk Factors – are factors that
you cannot change such as heredity, age and
others.
Controllable Health Risk Factors- are risk factors
that you can do something about.
Health
Risk
Behaviors
Sedentary Lifestyle- is defined as a type of lifestyle
where an individual does not receive regular amounts of
physical activity. This results to a number of overweight
teenagers and heart attack even at an early age. This is
characterized by “inactivity”.
Alcohol and Drug Use-
this affects one‘s health
since alcohol is the
major cause of liver
disease and drug use as
the culprit for a number
of car accident cases,
depression, mental
disorder and others.
Addiction to
Cigarette/Tobacco-
smoking leads to
diseases like respiratory
problems, cancer, heart
disease and others that
young people should
avoid.
Unhealthy and Poor
Eating Habits- your
eating habits can either
help or prevent you
from developing many
health diseases.
Stress- stress more often
causes physical symptoms
including headaches, upset
stomach, elevated blood
pressure, chest pain, and
sleeping problems.
 Health Risk Factors Physical
Behavior Activity
Performance
Eating Habits Overweight/ • Work your way up
to 150 minutes of
Obesity
moderate-intensity
aerobic activity, or
Heart Disease/ an equivalent mix
Stroke of the two each
week.
Health Behavior Risk Factor Physical Activity
Performance

Sleep and Stress High Blood Be sure to get the

Management Pressure amount of sleep
that you regularly
High Blood need in order to
Cholesterol function optimally
and care for your
Heart Disease health.