Risking Your Health

Abbreviations

ACE AIDS ART ATS BMI CCTs CM COPD CVD DBM FCTC GDP GISAH HIV HSV−2 IEC INCA NCDs NSPs OECD PDS SIEF STI

Adverse Childhood Events study acquired immunodeﬁciency syndrome anti-retroviral therapy amphetamine-type stimulants body mass index conditional cash transfers contingency management chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder cardiovascular disease Double Burden of Malnutrition Framework Convention for Tobacco Control Gross Domestic Product Global Information System on Alcohol and Health human immunodeﬁciency virus herpes-simplex virus−type 2 information and communication campaigns Instituto Nacional de Câncer noncommunicable diseases needle and syringe exchange programs Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development patterns of drinking score Spanish Impact Evaluation Fund sexually transmitted infections

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Risking Your Health

Published on Nov 21, 2013

World Bank Publications

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"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 explanations have been proposed by psychology, sociology, economics or public health. One trait common to all these behaviors is that there is a disconnect – a function of both delay and uncertainty - between the pleasure or satisfaction provided by them and their consequences. Another characteristic of risky behaviors is that they rarely occur in isolation. Peer-pressure, parental influences, netwo

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