Phobias and healthy lifestyle behaviors: a public health perspective
Normal fears serves as an 'alarm system' for physical body. The phobias cannot be controlled and can create panic. In phobias, the life is organized around this fear and quality of life quite negatively affected. Results of literature showed that healthy lifestyle behaviors, such as increa...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2016-04-01
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Series: | Family Practice and Palliative Care |
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Online Access: | https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/161845 |
Summary: | Normal fears serves as an 'alarm system' for physical body. The phobias cannot be controlled and can create panic. In phobias, the life
is organized around this fear and quality of life quite negatively affected. Results of literature showed that healthy lifestyle behaviors,
such as increasing physical activity, healthy diet, reducing the use of alcohol and cigarettes, have positive effects on phobia, indirectly.
This article aimed to define the concepts of fear and phobia in human's life and to provide the association with phobias of healthy
lifestyle behaviors. |
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ISSN: | 2459-1505 |