Health Behavior Maintenance
What is Health Behavior Maintenance?
Health behavior maintenance is the ability to sustain health-related behaviors over the long term to maintain positive health outcomes. It’s crucial for managing treatments like heart failure medications, antiretroviral therapy, and insulin, as well as for lifestyle changes that prevent and manage conditions like obesity, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. However, maintaining these behaviors can be challenging, and health care disparities and social determinants of health impact adherence.