Health risk behaviors among youth

Pages: 615-620
Ramnath (Department of Applied Psychology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana)

Risk behaviors are not, however, random, inevitable, or uncontrollable. Indeed, there is accumulating evidence identifying determinants of adolescents’ health risk behaviors that in turn may increase the likelihood of experiencing adverse health outcomes. Furthermore, there is ample empirical evidence indicating that risk behaviors are preventable and amenable to change through interventions. Risk factors may be either directly or indirectly related to a particular health outcome or disease. For example, smoking cigarettes is a behavioral risk factor that increases the likelihood of experiencing negative health outcomes (e.g., emphysema, increased blood pressure) and disease (e.g., cancer). Health risk behaviors are very common nowadays in sports person too. The present paper reviews on health risk behaviors among sports person.