Episode 73: Health Behavior: What is it, What do we understand about it, How do we change it?


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Mar 13 2024 48 mins   1

Why do we find it challenging to take care of ourselves, follow up on health concerns or enter into preventive health maintenance? Men in particular seem to have more difficulty in this regard. Even when we have the knowledge to pursue evaluation we sometimes fail to follow through.

Health Behavior is complex and has a multitude of factors influencing our decisions. Join in to listen to 2 experts review the theory of health behavior, as well as other health models.



Guest:

Grace Lasker, Ph.D, MCHES, CN, CHC (she/her)

Director of Health Studies; Teaching Professor, Nursing and Health Studies

Adjunct Teaching Professor, Dept. of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

University of Washington Bothell

Joseph Henrich,Ph.D

Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology

Department of Human Evolutionary Biology

Harvard University