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Public Health Risk Factors: Lifestyle

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  • О.N. Kalachikova (onk82@yandex.ru )
  • P.S. Korchagina (pavla_87@mail.ru)

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In the determination of morbidity and mortality the role the behavioral factor, i.e. people's attitude towards their own health, is constantly increasing. Lifestyle and health-promoting activity define about 50% of public health, along with such factors as heredity, environment and healthcare. Using statistical data and sociological monitoring, we analyze the major trends in public health and lifestyle of the population in Vologda Oblast. In Vologda Oblast 46% of the population are content about their health. The number of respondents who rated their health as bad or very bad fell by almost one half. It is shown that the number of people who see themselves as partly or fully responsible for their own health is growing in the region. In 2013, this figure increased to 88% of the population. It is revealed that only 6% of the population in the region does not demonstrate any destructive components of self-preservation behavior, while 94% has at least one practice of self-destructive nature. However, year after year, positive forms of self-preservation behavior are becoming more common among the people in Vologda Oblast

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  • О.N. Kalachikova (onk82@yandex.ru ) & P.S. Korchagina (pavla_87@mail.ru), 2015. "Public Health Risk Factors: Lifestyle," Journal "Region: Economics and Sociology", Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of Siberian Branch of RAS, vol. 1.
    • Handle: RePEc:nos:regioe:2015-1_6
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