Written Assignment Unit 2
Health related behavior
Linn Lae Nwe
University of People
Professor. Tara Jempty
Sep 18, 2023
Health behaviors are health-related practices, such as diet and exercise, that can
improve or damage the health of individuals or community members. Health behaviors are
determined by the choices available in the places where people live, learn, work and
play. (County Health ranking, n.d.). They include a wide range of behaviors, from dieting and
exercising to condom use and smoke cessation. Health behaviors can be defined as ‘. . . overt
behavioral patterns, actions and habits that relate to health maintenance, to health restoration and
to health improvement’ (Gochman, 1997, p. 3).
According to article that I have read, sleep deprivation or getting not enough sleep has
terrible consequences. Chronic sleep deprivation can contribute to a wide range of health
problems. Sleep plays a fundamental role in the functioning of nearly all systems of the body, so
a persistent lack of sleep poses significant risks to physical and mental health. Lack of sleep
affects on what we think and act. Just one sleepless night can cause us to feel irritate, dizzy or
lack of energy. The short-term impactions are noticeable as soon as it happens, but when we lack
of sleep for so long, it has potential risk of physical and mental health problems. (Suni, 2023).
The diseases include cardiovascular, obesity, diabetes, pain, mental health disorder, etc. In fact,
most adult needs at least 7 hours but teens and children need more than that. Actually, many
people get deprivation because they accept it as a normal and they manage sleepiness by
drinking coffee or energy drink and taking nap. If I applied this case with HBM, if people notice
sleep deprivation is the severe decease when take time, then people would manage their routines
to get enough sleep. When he is encountering symptoms of deprivation, he would go to clinic to
do health screening for his disease. Then, he can perceive the ways how to execute to get enough
sleep by reducing his watching time, making to-do-list like that.
For psychosocial, sleep deprivation can lead to effect on socially, emotionally and
financially. Sleepless guy mood is drowsy and he can irritate to his friends without reasons and
cause difficulties in society. When he is a student, his friends will exclude him from their group
because of his mannerism. Then he has no friends and being lonely at school. That can affect
him emotionally when he get scolded from teacher for not concentrating upon studies and get
rejection from his friends. And if he can’t concentrate on school work, he has to attend school
year repeatedly and that can waste lots of money for his parents including tuition, clothes, books
expenses. If he is a staff member, the boss will lay off from job for not treating friendly to
colleagues. In work, a staff member should have positive manner and being sociable and flexible
with everyone is the mandatory for all the worker. Thus, he will surely get refused from all the
company if he doesn’t enough sleep and seem lugubrious expression.
In conclusion, behavior, however, is not only linked to illness onset but also to the
management of illness and health outcomes. (Ogden, J. 2019). When a person knows how the
belief is related with behavior, he can implement good routine by taking action like avoiding bad
habits and follow new routine by doing exercise to maintain health.
Reference:
Eric Suni (2023). Sleep Deprivation: Understanding the Hidden Consequences
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-deprivation
Ogden, J. (2019). The psychology of health and illness: An open-access course [PDF]. Semantic
Scholar.
County Health Ranking. (n.d).
https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/explore-health-rankings/county-health-rankings-model/
health-factors/health-behaviors
