Health information exposure is associated with health behaviors

What is it about?

This paper examines the relationships between individual factors, health information exposure, and health behaviors. Both more active and more passive information exposures are associated with the amount of exercise people engage in, the amount of fruit and vegetables people eat, whether they smoke cigarettes, and whether the engage in excessive alcohol use.

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Why is it important?

Our study is an early test of a model that argues individual factors, health information and communication behaviors, and health behaviors are all related. Our results provide evidence that this more complex perception of health is accurate.