Question

summarize why health behavior change is so difficult for diabetic, cancer, and heart disease. Describe a health behavior that you think you struggle to change. what are the factors that contribute to your health behaviors? what are the barriers to changing your behavior? what are the barriers to changing your behavior? how could this personal struggle help you as a public health professionals?

Answer 1

Answer: Diabetes, cardiovascular disease as well cancer are the chronic diseases. They require many lifestyle changes along with the treatment. But it becomes difficult for the people to have change in their regular terms. The health behavior changes become difficult mainly when people are unable to accept the change or any kind of modification in their living standard or lifestyle. The problem arises due to their habits, or the certain things that has been carried out for long years and can not be changed now.

Habit is one of the health behavior that is a kind of challenge to change. For example eating sugar is one of the habit of a person, hence it becomes difficult for them to change or avoid sugar consumption.

There are many factors which contributes in the health behavior such as:

• Socioeconomic status
• Lifestyle
• Exercise
• Busy schedule
• Social determinants.

The change for betterment is important, one need to understand the demand of the health. The health behavior change could bring positive results such as it may reduce the risk of disease development. For example in the case of obesity, exercise could result in to weight management. It reduces the risk of disease development such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension etc. Hence personal struggle reveals about the method that can me employed for the others to overcome with the problem and challenges.