作者: Melbourne F. Hovell , Suzanne C. Hughes
DOI: 10.1093/NTR/NTP133
关键词: Environmental health 、 Public health 、 Tobacco industry 、 Population 、 Medicine 、 Behavior change 、 Health policy 、 Ecological systems theory 、 Applied psychology 、 Health promotion 、 Tobacco control
摘要: Behavior change is required to prevent morbidity. explains more than 50% of the variance in infectious diseases, degenerative and injuries (Cuff & Vanselow, 2004; McGinnis Foege, 1993). An individual's health a function behavior many people on multiple levels, broad systems approach understanding both population's critical achieving promotion for all. Investigators cannot ignore politicians who enact legislative policies that influence public research, medical care providers insurers, industries (e.g., pharmaceuticals, tobacco) may profit from prevents disease or harms public. The confluence these agencies defines complex behavioral ecological subcultures determine health-related morbidity outcomes. We have used Behavioral Ecological Model (BEM), where social are emphasized integrated with individual factors genetic personal learning histories) understand engineer populations’ (Hovell, Wahlgren, Adams, 2009; Hovell, Gehrman, 2002). In this context, we discuss role secondhand smoke exposure (SHSe) overarching process tobacco control. This article describes BEM, how it applies SHSe elevating as key target within control science be means preventing addiction whole populations.