Lifestyle And Risk Taking Behavior

Lifestyle and Risk-Taking Behavior Edgel May C. Bayag, M.D.

Lifestyle • Forms of activities in a man’s life that are typical for a certain society • Based on prevailing objective conditions • Mediating structures which reflect a whole range of social values, attitudes and activities • • Choice of behavior may be promotive of, or detrimental to health

Risk-Taking Behavior • Behavior that is detrimental to one’s health and life • • Young people love taking risks • Taking risks is a natural part of growing up • Provides a young person with a sense of “adultness”

Risk-Taking Behavior • Some take risks to gain friends or sexual experience • • Offer a means of escape from resolution of personal conflicts • • Benefits are short term while harm done can be lasting

8 HEALTH RISKS OF YOUNG PEOPLE

Smoking

Addiction

Physical Activities &Exercise

Endangering traffic behavior Video Clip

Eating Habits

Interpersonal Relations

Sexual Behaviors

Health Risks of Young People • Smoking • Alcohol consumption and related problems • Addiction • Physical activities and exercise • Endangering traffic behavior • Eating habits • Interpersonal relations • Sexual behaviors

Substance Abuse

Substance Abuse • used to replace the terms, alcohol abuse and drug abuse • refers to excessive use of drugs or alcohol which is inconsistent with acceptable practice, medically or socially • usually results in a failure to fulfill major role obligations at home, school or work, or in recurrent legal problems • substance use is continued even when it is physically hazardous or despite having persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems caused or exacerbated by the effects of the substance •

Tolerance • manifests as decline in effect with continued use of the same amount of the substance • • leads to a need for markedly increased amounts of the substance to achieve the desired effect •

Physiological Dependence ▫ characterized by the presence of tolerance and the appearance of withdrawal symptoms when use of the substance is stopped

▫ ▫ can be explained by neuroadaptive changes that follow intake of many drugs including antidepressants and beta-adrenergic receptor antagonists ▫

Dependence As a Behavioral Syndrome ▫ characterized by a person’s compulsion to take a substance (continuously or periodically) in order to experience its psychic effects or to avoid the discomfort of its absence 

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