Explain how health is affected by behaviors, economics, and social structure. When approaching behavior as a possible factor that affects one’s health, they must look at all aspects of their behavior, the good, the bad, and the ugly. What a person views as a good form of behavior may not be viewed the same by someone in the medical profession. Behaviors that are presumed as risk factors for one’s health consist of reckless driving, alcohol abuse, tobacco use, unbalanced nutritional diet, and a lack of exercise. When a person changes just one of these bad habits or unapproved behaviors, they expand their life expectancy by an average of five to ten years. While watching the Doctors on NBC, they showed that a person who smokes can lengthen their life by ten years and improve their health by lowering their risk of lung cancer and coronary heart disease is decreased to half that of a smoker after one year of quitting. The economic factor of a person’s health is vastly simulated based on the depression and the economic hardship of the United States as a whole. Researchers found that the economic factor of a person’s health is directly linked to their behavior. During an economic “boom”, people tend to not take care of themselves. They drink excessively, have a higher caloric intake, and don’t exercise or visit their doctor as much due to work-related commitments. People work more and spend less time treating their bodies as the temples they ought to. A well-to-do economy has proven itself to be bad on a person’s health, while a good economy has been proven to improve a person’s well-being due to simple changes that even the doctor would highly recommend such as lower caloric intake by cooking or choosing grilled and steamed foods. Avoid fatty meats such as pork and beef and choose lean protein such as fish, chicken and turkey instead. This would vastly improve one’s health if this one step were to be taken seriously. The World Health Organization...