Theory Of Social Ecological Model

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Theory of Social Ecological Model Public health issue of increase in alcohol consumption
Components of the social ecological model
1. Intrapersonal- Factors within the individual.
Values- In this factor what person think about to drink alcohol weather it is good or not can affect the behavior of individual to consume alcohol.
Beliefs- In this person own belief like alcohol is need for such situation. He/she cannot manage that which motivates them to drink. Also like they belief that after drinking alcohol they can get attention towards them can also motivate them to drink.
Attitudes- Individual attitude that drinking alcohol can include them in high status in the community this can motivate individual to consume alcohol.
Skills- In this person feel that they acquired the skill of high tolerance rate to drink alcohol. They can manage him after drinking some amount of alcohol can also increase individual to consume alcohol.
Genetics- Alcohol consumption
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So these help people to regulate themselves.
4. Community- in this place where individual from different institutions come together for social governance. The subjective aspect would be change the behavior of people to reduce alcohol consumption. The legal aspect such as various law help person to control the alcohol consumption. People from different geographic location have different story and which help individual to control his behavior.
5. Policies- the government policies which help people to control themselves like you cannot drive with 0.08 percent blood alcohol level. Others policies like in 10 mile no more than one liquor shop, one person cannot purchase more than four drink per day like this kind of policies can help individual to prevent from drink more.

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