Promoting Healthy Behavior

Description:

"The government, the media, HMOs, and individual Americans have all embraced programs to promote disease prevention. Yet obesity is up, exercise is down, teenagers continue to smoke, and sexually transmitted disease is rampant. Why? These essays examine the ethical and social problems that create subtle obstacles to changing Americans' unhealthy behavior." "The contributors raise profound questions about the role of the state or employers in trying to change health-related behavior, about the actual health and economic benefits of even trying, and about the freedom and responsibility of those of us who, as citizens, will be the target of such efforts."--Jacket.

subjects: Health promotion,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Health behavior,  Methods,  Social aspects,  Legislation & jurisprudence,  Public health,  Social aspects of Health promotion,  Moral and ethical aspects of Health promotion,  Social values,  Morals,  Ethics,  Social Responsibility