What are health-related behaviors?

Health promotion behavior refers to the behavior that individuals or groups objectively benefit the health of themselves and others. The main features are: ① Advantages. Behavior is beneficial to the health of oneself, others and the whole society, such as not smoking. ② regularity. Behavior is regular, not accidental, such as eating regularly and quantitatively. ③ Harmony. Individual behavior shows individuality, such as choosing exercise, but it can adjust its behavior according to the environment and make it harmonious with the environment. ④ Consistency. The explicit behavior of individuals in vitro is consistent with their internal psychological emotions, but not contradictory. ⑤ Suitability. The intensity of behavior can be reasonably controlled.

Health promotion behavior can be divided into five categories:

(1) Daily health behaviors

Healthy behaviors in daily life, such as reasonable nutrition, adequate sleep, moderate exercise, washing hands before and after meals, etc.

(2) Avoid environmental hazards.

It refers to avoiding contact with dangerous factors that are harmful to health in the natural environment and social environment, such as leaving the polluted environment and not contacting the infected water, and actively adapting to various stressful life events.

(3) Get rid of bad habits

Quit smoking, drinking, giving up drugs, etc.

(4) Warning behavior

It refers to the preventive behavior of events that may endanger health, and the correct handling behavior after the accident, such as driving with a seat belt, preventing fire, drowning, car accidents, and self-help after the accident.

(5) Rational utilization of health services

Refers to the effective and reasonable use of existing medical and health care services to maintain their own health, including regular physical examination, vaccination, timely treatment after illness, following the doctor's advice, actively cooperating with medical treatment, maintaining optimism, and actively recovering.