Evaluating Health Behaviors

Evaluating Health Behaviors

Paper instructions:
MEASURING HEALTH BEHAVIOR

According to Mokdad & Remington (2010), œhealth behaviors are a leading cause of illness and death in the United States (p. 1). Reflecting on this statement,

write a paper (2-3 pages) discussing the importance of being able to measure health behaviors and describing methods to assess health behaviors in a target population

The following items in particular will be assessed:
1.Discuss reasons for measuring health behaviors.
2.Identify at least two methods to assess/measure smoking behaviors among adolescents in your community.
3.In your opinion, do you agree or disagree that measurement of health behavior is useful for program planning. Defend your position by providing empirical

evidence.
4.Use of 3 sources referenced. 1 of the three will need to be copied and pasted into you browser(see below)