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high-risk behavior

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high-risk behavior
Public health A lifestyle activity that places a person at ↑ risk of suffering a particular condition. See Safe sex practices.


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Patients of bipolar disorder experience episodes of mania and depression alongside periods of normal mood, with symptoms ranging from trouble concentrating and sleep disturbance to high-risk behavior and thoughts of suicide.
The "All Stars" program is designed to delay and prevent high-risk behaviors such as alcohol and substance use and violence.
Those high-risk behaviors include unprotected paid sex, the sharing of contaminated needles by injection drug users and unprotected sex between men who have sex with men.
 
 
 
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