BACKGROUND Modifiable health-related behaviours tend to cluster among most vulnerable sectors of the population, particularly those at the bottom of the social hierarchy. This study aimed to identify the clusters of health-related behaviours in 27 European countries and to examine the socioeconomic inequalities in these clusters. METHODS Data were from Eurobarometer 72.3-2009, a cross-section...

AMA Oskędra I, Wojtas K, Szarek A. Selected health behaviours of nursing students. Nursing Problems / Problemy Pielęgniarstwa. 2023;31(1):43-48. doi:10.5114/ppiel.2023.129138. APA Oskędra, I., Wojtas, K., & Szarek, (2023). Pielęgniarstwa, 31(1), 43-48. https://doi.org/10.5114/ppiel.2023.129138 Chicago Iwona, Katarzyna and Aleksandra Szarek. 2023. "Selected students". Pielęgniarstwa 31 (1): Harv...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe the differences in health behaviours in disparate marital status groups and to estimate the extent to which these can explain differences in health associated with marital status. DESIGN Baseline data of a prospective cohort study were used. Directly age standardised percentages of each marital group that engaged in each of the following behaviours--smoking, alcoho...

BACKGROUND This study assessed clustering of three health-compromising behaviours and explored the association of neighbourhood and individual social capital with simultaneous health-compromising behaviours and patterns of those behaviours in women in the first trimester of pregnancy (baseline) and during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy (follow-up). METHODS A longitudinal study w...

Health-related behaviours are a concern for contemporary health policy and practice given their association with a range of illness outcomes. Many of the policies and interventions aimed at changing health-related behaviours assume that people are more or less free to choose their behaviour and how they experience health. Within sociology and anthropology, these behaviours are viewed not as act...

The UK faces a public health challenge arising from unhealthy behaviours. Some health care workers engage in the same unhealthy behaviours as the general population. This paper explores the issues arising from some primary care staff adopting unhealthy behaviours upon healthcare organisations, professional practice and patient perceptions in terms of the promotion of health in the primary care ...

This study used Canadian data to examine whether the relationships between two health behaviours (physical activity and smoking) and two measures of health (self-perceived health status and number of chronic health conditions) are conditional on income adequacy. Studies that have investigated the manner in which socioeconomic circumstances, such as income adequacy, and health behaviours interac...

BACKGROUND High maternal mortality and morbidity persist, in large part due to inadequate access to timely and quality health care. Attitudes and behaviours of maternal health care providers (MHCPs) influence health care seeking and quality of care. METHODS Five electronic databases were searched for studies from January 1990 to December 2014. Included studies report on types or impacts of MH...

People with a mental illness experience greater chronic disease morbidity and mortality compared to those without mental illness. Family carers have the potential to promote the health behaviours of those they care for however factors which may influence the extent to which they do so have not been reported. An exploratory study was conducted to investigate carers': 1) promotion of fruit and ve...