This essay is designed to provide an opportunity for you to attach the new concepts and constructs youve learning in this course to your own beliefs and experiences. In an essay format (no bullet points or incomplete sentences), write a maximum of two pages (double-spaced) addressing the following:
- Identification of one personal health behavior that you either practice, or would like to change (i.e., exercise, smoking, alcohol consumption, regular dental visits, regular physical checkups, stress reduction practices, etc.).
- Explain the role you believe that the larger causes of the causes (social determinants) have in shaping that behavior?
- Explain the role that community level constructs youve learned about in this course have on that behavior?
- Explain the role that individual level constructs youve learned about in this course have on that behavior?
- Discuss which constructs and levels of influence you believe had/have the strongest effect on your selected health behavior.
- Given your analysis of your own health behavior, what theory-based intervention might help you maintain or change your selected behavior?
