Question

What are the behaviors that put each of these cohorts - adolescents, college students, and adults - at greatest risk, and how does a person's environment impact these behaviors? Please use the social-ecological model to discuss the environment.

Answer 1

Socioecological model describes the relation between individual and the environment. How to nurture it and get the benefits.There are risk factors at various level in one's life.The factors like age, gender,education, stress level, some health belief,negligence ,poor parenting ,societal triggers like violence,abuse,substance abuse,barriers to access health and reproductive care in HIV positive couples.

This sall has a direct impact on the attitude, health and behavior of an individual at all stages

These little things may lead to violence, child abuse, women harrasment, sexual abuse causing poor health maintainance and stress making an individual prone to psychiatric and medical illness