The question now is how to act and deal with this change to increase healthy lifestyles. We have two approaches to help us achieve this. The individualistic approach explains people's ability to exercise good control over their health (Bandura, 2004). Basically, the individualistic approach states that each person should be held responsible for maintaining their own health. On the other hand, the social approach seeks to help people increase their effectiveness in their beliefs. This includes changing social, political and environmental conditions to avoid current and future health risks. This can be done in several ways. The first would be to spread information on how practicing healthy daily habits has a positive effect on health. The second takes a different approach and works to provoke fear of the disease. The third is to inform individuals about their vulnerability and risk of a disease. Basically, just because you're healthy now doesn't mean you'll stay that way without taking the necessary precautions. Some people believe that an individualistic approach is more important than a social approach and vice versa. However, I feel that they are completely related and one cannot exist without the other. Social approaches work to educate and inspire people to make health changes, but these changes will never be realized unless they are
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