Research Questions and Terms in Term Paper

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Key terms to be considered in this process will be those concerning a
developed understanding of the purpose of the study from a health
perspective. Therefore, this section should provide the study with a clear
identification of those terms which will be needed for an understanding of
the research subject as a whole.
Health Belief Model is a theoretical model framing our study. This
model, which is often referred to in the justification for public
information campaigns, the identification of public health patterns and the
illumination of other important factors as regard private and public health
agencies, contends that there is a direct correlation between that which
individuals believe regarding health and health-related factors and the way
that they behave or orient lifestyle decisions. Such is to say that one
who, for example, believes that smoking tobacco products can lead to lung
cancer and mortality may behave by refusing to buy or smoke tobacco
products. By the same token, in the case of our study, the health belief
model might be used to hypothesize that one who believes that obesity is
related directly to heart disease and early mortality might behave by
eating nutritiously, attempting exercise or consulting a physician or more
aggressive treatment measures.

Obesity in this study will be defined as the state of being
dangerously overweight. This will characterize individuals falling within
a certain index as provided by the American Medical Association and other
reliable health councils. For the purposes of the study here, obesity is
only considered as a condition which common medical research argues to be
health-threatening. Though at this juncture, researchers are not prepared
to identify the specific index, the appropriate step in this study will
bring a clearer use of this external research process to identify the exact
terms of defining obesity.
Lifestyle Orientation is a term that will also be raised throughout
the study, as it has already been through the course of the research
questions. This will refer to a wide array of conditions relating to one's
behavior in the realm of health, especially focusing on the way one
balances a diet, evaluates nutritional decisions, participates in
exercises, occupies one's self in terms of employment and other terms that
represent active decisions as opposed to medical conditions.
Related Medical Conditions will be those typically identified with
obesity such as heart disease, hypertension, high blood pressure, diabetes
and the threat of premature death......

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