Association between life quality (SF-36) and behavioral risk factors

Currently, many scientific works are devoted to the studying the effects that form health, while to investigate the risk factors that lead to its violation is not less important. As literary data show, today a stable term of the risk factors that affect human health has been formed. Behavioral risk factors usually refer to actions that a person commits at his own decision. Therefore, such factors can be eliminated or reduced by changing the way of life or habits of behavior. This article provides a literature review of the relationship between the main behavioral risk factors and the indicators of the life quality of a person.

Association between life quality (SF-36) and behavioral risk factors

Currently, many scientific works are devoted to the studying the effects that form health, while to investigate the risk factors that lead to its violation is not less important. As literary data show, today a stable term of the risk factors that affect human health has been formed. Behavioral risk factors usually refer to actions that a person commits at his own decision. Therefore, such factors can be eliminated or reduced by changing the way of life or habits of behavior. This article provides a literature review of the relationship between the main behavioral risk factors and the indicators of the life quality of a person.

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