Risking Your Health : Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors

Behaviors that pose risks for an individual's health and that also represent important threats for public health, such as drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex, are highly prevalent in low income countries, even though they are traditionally associated with richer countries. Individual choices are an important part of the risky behaviors. Risking Your Health: Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors explore how those choices are formed and what are their consequences. Why do people engage in risky behaviors? Many different explan

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	De Walque, Damien
Publisher:	Washington : World Bank Publications
Subject:	Gesundheitsvorsorge \| Preventive care \| Gesundheitsrisiko \| Health risk \| Gesundheit \| Health

Extent:	Online-Ressource (207 p)
Series:	Human Development Perspectives
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; References; Chapter 1: Overview of the Prevalence and Trends of Risky Behaviors in the Developing World; Introduction; Illicit Drug Use; Tables; 1.1 Annual Prevalence of Drug Use by World Region; Smoking; Maps; 1.1 Males Who Smoke Cigarettes, 2010 or latest available data; 1.2 Females Who Smoke Cigarettes, 2010 or latest available data; 1.2 Countries with Highest Percentage of Male Smokers; 1.3 Countries with Highest Percentage of Female Smokers; Figures 1.1 The Tobacco Continuum and the Four Stages of the Smoking Epidemic in Males1.2 The Tobacco Continuum and the Four Stages of the Smoking Epidemic in Females; Alcohol Consumption; 1.3 Total Adult Per Capita Consumption, in liters of pure alcohol, 2008 or latest available; 1.4 Countries with Highest Per Capita Consumption of Alcohol, liters of pure alcohol; 1.4 Alcohol-Attributable Deaths as a Percentage of Total Deaths, 2004; 1.5 Patterns of Drinking Score by Country, 2005; 1.5 Countries with Highest Patterns of Drinking Score (PDS); Overweight and Obesity 1.6 Male Overweight (BMI > 25) Prevalence by Country, 20081.7 Female Overweight (BMI > 25) Prevalence by Country, 2008; 1.8 Male Obesity (BMI > 30) Prevalence by Country, 2008; 1.9 Female Obesity (BMI > 30) Prevalence by Country, 2008; 1.6 Countries with Highest Percentage of Obese Males, 2008; 1.7 Countries with Highest Percentage of Obese Females, 2008; 1.3 Trends in Overweight Males (BMI > 25) in Brazil, China, Mexico, and South Africa; 1.4 Trends in Obese Males (BMI > 30) in Brazil, China, Mexico, and South Africa 1.5 Trends in Overweight Females (BMI > 25) in Brazil, China, Mexico, and South Africa1.6 Trends in Obese Females (BMI > 30) in Brazil, China, Mexico, and South Africa; Risky Sex; 1.10 Adult HIV Prevalence by Country, 2011; 1.8 Countries with Highest HIV Prevalence; 1.11 Age-Specific Fertility Rate among Young Women Ages 15-19; Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Determinants of Risky Behavior; Introduction; Education; Wealth and Income; Prices; Life Expectancy and Competing Risks; Information and Beliefs; Risk Compensation; Psychological Determinants of Risk-Taking Social Determinants of Risk-TakingBiological Determinants of Risk-Taking; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3: The Consequences of Risky Behaviors; Introduction; Individual Consequences; 3.1 Opportunity Costs of Smoking; 3.1 Calories That Can Be Purchased with the Cost of One Pack of Cigarettes; 3.1 Annual Per-Patient Spending for Diabetes Management; 3.2 Diabetes Expenditure in 2012; 3.3 Alcohol-Attributable Deaths; 3.4 Drug Use and Disease Prevalence, Selected Countries; Consequences to Immediate Peers; 3.2 Fraction of Youth Exposed to Secondhand Smoke in the Home, Selected Countries 3.3 Alcohol-Attributable Deaths Due to Violence en_US
ISBN:	978-0-8213-9906-4 ; 978-0-8213-9907-1
Other identifiers:	hdl:10986/16305 [Handle]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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