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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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In this study, the IDUs who gave history of sex-related high-risk behavior, nearly 18% had paid sex while 12% had multiple partners.
* Psychiatrists may be uniquely able to discuss and alter patients' high-risk behaviors related to HIV transmission and treatment.
--Lapses occur in surveillance and detection of high-risk behavior.
Neurological dysfunction associated with high-risk behaviors in both male and female inmates may result from CNS infections (Tselis & Booss, 2003), traumatic brain injuries in up to 87% of inmates (Slaughter, Farm, & Ehde, 2003), and various other etiologies (Brewer-Smyth et al.).
Investigators responding to this announcement are required to target two or more ineffective parenting practices or behaviors (e.g., lack of appropriate parental monitoring, supervision, and communication, high family conflict and disorganization, parental stress and depression, lack of parent-child bonding, and negative discipline methods) and two or more youth/adolescent high-risk behaviors (e.g., unhealthy dietary behaviors, inadequate physical activity, tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, sexual behaviors, and unintentional (accidents) and intentional behaviors (firearm-related injuries).
These sessions offer teens the opportunity to let their parents know how they may have contributed to the teen's high-risk behavior. Parents can begin to offer more positive support and guidance once they are aware of the influences that contributed to this behavior.
The solution is for companies, both large and small, to avail themselves of the type of consumer-driven health programs that incorporate real incentives to change high-risk behaviors, combined with wellness initiatives such as health screenings, stress and weight management programs, smoking cessation, targeted health education, and disease management.
The survey selected 236 men and 97 women in 11 state prisons to determine the rate of high-risk behavior.
Finally, we excluded surveys (9.1%) which appeared to have an obviously exaggerated report of high-risk behavior, operationally defined as endorsing all six of the following actions in the past 30 days at school: carried a gun, carried a knife, carried another weapon, got in a fight, drank alcohol, and used drugs.
New Jersey college students' high-risk behavior: Will we meet the health objectives for the year 2000?
Such people are rare; they can be identified as remarkable resistant to AIDS even when they engage in repeated high-risk behavior. One might therefore expect that nuclei donated by any HIV-infected person, if genetically engineered to remove the gene for the CKR5 receptor and then passaged through egg cytoplasm, would produce new cells for the AIDS patient's immune system that might reestablish a healthy immune system despite the virus's presence, and even perhaps allow for his or her survival and long-term recovery.
And it would be a public policy that sends the tight message -- unlike, say, a lottery that would put the government in the position of promoting high-risk behavior. Encouraging premarital counseling, especially, seem like a good idea since it would ensure some sort of "informed consent" before entering into a legal contract With serious ramifications.
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