Health Behavior Theory
This level of health behavior theory focuses on an individual's knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions.
What is the intrapersonal level?
These five fundamental necessities are essential for human survival and maintaining health.
What are air, water, food, fuel, and shelter?
These large systems of rotating ocean currents can concentrate floating plastic debris.
What are ocean gyres?
This type of water is found in rivers, lakes, streams, and reservoirs.
What is surface water?
This federal law regulates air pollution to protect public health and the environment.
What is the Clean Air Act?
This level of theory examines how organizations, policies, social norms, and environments influence health behaviors.
What is the community level?
A family lives in a home with mold, poor ventilation, and a leaking roof. This fundamental necessity is inadequate.
What is shelter?
These tiny plastic particles, measuring less than 5 millimeters, are found in oceans, drinking water, and even the human body.
What are microplastics?
This type of water is stored beneath Earth's surface in the pores and cracks of soil and rock.
What is groundwater?
This type of air pollution consists of tiny particles measuring 2.5 micrometers or smaller in diameter that can travel deep into the lungs.
What is PM2.5 (fine particulate matter)?
This level of theory focuses on how family, friends, peers, and social relationships influence health behaviors.
What is the interpersonal level?
Wildfire smoke increases particulate matter in the atmosphere, threatening the quality of this necessity.
What is air?
This term describes the buildup of contaminants within an organism over time.
What is bioaccumulation?
This underground layer of permeable rock or sediment stores and transmits groundwater.
What is an aquifer?
This harmful air pollutant forms near Earth's surface when sunlight triggers chemical reactions involving nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds.
What is ground-level ozone?
This term refers to a general idea or mental representation used to explain a behavior.
What is a concept?
Daily Double:
A community experiences an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness after its drinking water becomes contaminated. This fundamental necessity has been compromised.
What is water?
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers an estimated 1.6 million square kilometers, making it approximately three times the size of this U.S. state.
What is Texas?
This type of water is safe for human consumption and is also called potable water.
What is drinking water?
This Clean Air Act provision requires states to address certain air pollution that travels across state lines and contributes to air quality problems in neighboring states.
What is the Good Neighbor Provision?
These are the key components or variables that make up a health behavior theory.
What are constructs?
This fundamental necessity of life provides the energy and nutrients the human body needs for growth, repair, and survival.
What is food?
This term describes the increasing concentration of certain pollutants at higher levels of the food chain.
What is biomagnification?
These two federal laws work together to protect water resources from pollution and help ensure safe drinking water for the public.
What are the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act?
This federal agency establishes national air quality standards for common air pollutants.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?