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Conference “Perception and Communication of Health Risks. Experience in an internship at the Department of Public Health of the WHO (Geneva)”

  • April 20th, 2016
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Dra. Marta Gil Lacruz is a specialist in Community Health. She is a Health Sciences teacher at the University of Zaragoza. Department of Social Psychology.

The past 29th April 2015, Dra. Marta Gil Lacruz made a reflection on how specific life styles pose a risk to human health, being necessary to address the life style analysis with a multidisciplinary focus. The importance of this detailed analysis of customer behaviours lies in the already high mortality rate derived from the life style.

She also remarked that life style has a social background and risk behaviours must be evaluated considering the element of cultural relativity. Thus, life style involves an enormous social responsability that impacts on the development of preventive campaigns. The preventive approach is intended for health behaviour.