“The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in patterns of life than because discrete parts of a lifestyle can be changed. Health-change policies which focus entirely on the individual may be ineffective not only because exposure to health risks is largely involuntary, but also, as this study has shown, because of unwarranted assumptions about the extent to which behaviour can, in these circumstances, be effective in improving health.” MayIndividualDifferencesStudyFocusRiskPolicyChangedCircumstancesEvidencePatternsLifestyleAssumptionRelevantElsewhereBehaviourImprovingExposurePromotionInvoluntaryDiscreteHealth Promotion Author:Mildred Blaxter
“It is certainly not true that the population can be easily divided into those who lead healthy lifestyles, and those who do not: most people's patterns are mixed, with both good and bad areas of life.” PeopleHealthyAreasPatternsPopulationLifestyleDividedGood And BadHealthy Lifestyle Author:Mildred Blaxter
