How health promotion can be effective in underage (13-17) drinking behaviour

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How health promotion can be effective in underage (13-17) drinking behavior

Literature Review

The study is related to the health promotion which particularly focuses on the underage drinking behavior. Moreover, the study also emphasizes on the factors that affect the health promotion and drinking behavior that include peer pressure, family influences and lack of awareness. These factors play vital and imperative role in minimizing the increasing underage drinking behavior which ultimately affect the health promotion of the teen agers.

Use of Tannahill Model

Prevention

In relation to the prevention of underage drinking behavior, health promotion in the target group that is the underage (13 to 17), in context of drinking behavior that was the subject of a fundamental study in the research. According to the past researchers, 850 young people between the ages of 13 and 19 were interviewed in their roles in traditional events; content of the survey were, for example, health behaviors and attitudes about health, but also the expectations of events, the media use of teenagers people or possible contacts with drinking.

Education

In context of family influences and peer pressure, it is important to educate that the drinking behavior of underage people can be minimized as the health promotion can be enhanced due to the peer pressure and family influences around teen agers. With reference to family influences and peer pressure, it is a comprehensive process that covers only actions directed at strengthening the skills and capacities of underage individuals, but also aimed at changing the social, environmental and economic, in order to mitigate its impact on public health and individual (Moyse, 2009, 16-28). It is considered also a process that enables people to increase control over the determinants of health and thereby improve. They should contribute to health for all alike, so ...