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A risk behavior is an action on your part that may result in a bad or unwanted consequence. Examples include the following:
- Smoking puts you at risk for cancer.
- Driving while drunk puts you at much higher risk of a car accident, which can harm or kill yourself or others.
- Being overweight puts you at risk for a heart attack.
- Breaking the law puts you at risk for going to jail.
- Teen sex puts you at risk for emotional and physical consequences such as adoption, teen pregnancy, or single parenthood.
- Being careless with personal information on the internet puts you at risk of being scammed, harmed, or having your identity stolen.
- Using a cell phone while driving puts you at risk of having an accident and possibly killing yourself or someone else.
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Define healthy risk-taking behavior and unhealthy risk-taking behavior?
Unhealthy risk-taking behavior is a behavior that puts you at risk for a bad consequence. Healthy risk-taking behavior is a positive tool in an adolescent's life for discovering, developing, and consolidating his or her identity. :)
Definition of risk behavior?
Risk behavior is behavior or other factor that places a person at risk for disease. These disease can include HIV/AIDS, diabetes, cancer, etc.
How does behavior health syndromes increase an individuals risk for addictive behaviors?
The behavior health syndromes increases an individual's risk for addictive behavior through the repetitive behavior.
What is the difference between risk behavior and risk situation?
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When do you reward gambling risk behavior?
Never
What is risk behaviors?
Risk Behavior: An action that potentiating threatens your health or the health of others.
What is the difference between a risk and risk behavior?
A risk is the ability to speed in a car. A risk behavior is driving at fast speeds. A risk is that drug companies manufacture a variety of medications to treat or cure illness and disease. A risk behavior is taking medication the doctor did not prescribe for you, or taking more than prescribed, or taking the medication for recreational use, e.g. to 'get high' or 'get stoned'. A risk is knowing that STDs exist and are transmitted through oral or vaginal sex. A risk behavior is 'sleeping around' and not using condoms for protection. A risk is knowing that some people steal from stores. A risk behavior is going to stores and shoplifting. A risk is not paying attention to your body and managing the appetite for food responsibly. A risk behavior is over-eating or starving yourself to manage your emotional needs. A risk is that some foods can increase blood sugar in diabetes. A risk behavior is being diagnosed with diabetes and not managing the kinds of foods you eat. A risk is knowing certain lifestyle choices can make respiratory problems worse, for example, certain jobs, smoking, doing drugs, etc. A risk behavior is having a chronic respiratory disease, but refusing to alter your lifestyle choices. In many ways, "risks" exist in every part of life. "Risk Behaviors", though, are the parts of risks that we can control ourselves.
Impact of risk behavior of dagga?
impact of dagga
What is the opposite to precatutions?
reckless behavior risk taking
What condition is associated with risk taking behavior?
smoking
What the physical impact of risk behavior on a person?
Physicaly
What is perceived risk in consumer behavior?
There are five type of perceived risk monetary physical social functional
