Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

This free course, Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?, explores the extent to which a person's 'lifestyle' impacts on their health and wellbeing. It also examines how non-lifestyle related factors – in particular social, economic, cultural and political dimensions – influence a person's health.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Understanding ‘lifestyles’
• 1 Understanding ‘lifestyles’
• 1.1 Further defining ‘lifestyles’
• 2 Quantitative research
• 2 Quantitative research
• 3 Benefits of the Body Mass Index
• 3 Benefits of the Body Mass Index
• 4 Weaknesses of the Body Mass Index
• 4 Weaknesses of the Body Mass Index
• 5 Lifestyles and choice
• 5 Lifestyles and choice
• 6 Lifestyles in context
• 6 Lifestyles in context
• 7 Qualitative research
• 7 Qualitative research
• 8 The scale of obesity as an issue
• 8 The scale of obesity as an issue
• 9 Improving understanding about what we eat
• 9 Improving understanding about what we eat
• 10 Encouraging behavioural change
• 10 Encouraging behavioural change
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements