Your Behavior & Reducing Health Risks

Understanging Health Risks

    Part of becoming an adult is learning how to make responsible decisions.   The first step in doing this is to understand the role of individual responsibility regarding personal risk behaviors.   RISK BEHAVIORS are actions that can potentially threaten your helath or the health of others.  

    Consequences of risky behaviors add up over time.   These CUMULATIVE RISKS   are related risks that increase in effect with each added risk.   Cumulative risks may also result from combinations of risk factors.   The combination of risks greatly magnify the potential to harm yourself or others.   Cumalitve risks can and do occur in all areas of health and safety.