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8.3 Perceived Impact of Changing Lifestyle on Health
As part of the 2009 Social Capital Survey, respondents were asked to state the level of
effect that different lifestyle changes could have on a person‟s health (not necessarily
their own). Figure 77 below shows survey responders‟ perceptions of the impact of
changes to someone‟s health. Overall, a majority of respondents felt that each lifestyle
change would have a very big effect on a person‟s health, however there was some
variance noted between the responses to different lifestyle changes. The responses
stating a „very big effect‟ ranged from 57.9% for reducing alcohol levels to 78.1% for
quitting smoking. The underlying data are given in the APPENDIX on page 857.
Figure 77: Perceived impact that changes to lifestyle risk factors could have on health
Further information by gender, age, Locality and local deprivation quintile is given in the
full Social Capital Survey 2009 report. Attitudes to smoking, diet obesity and alcohol
consumption were collected as part of Reflector Groups following the 2007 Health and
Lifestyle Survey (see section 13.2.2.2 on page 795) and the 2008-09 Young Person
Health and Lifestyle Survey (see section 13.2.2.3 on page 796), as well as in the
Attitudes to Health Focus Groups conducted during 2007 (see section 13.2.2.1 on page
794). All these reports are available at www.hullpublichealth.org. Further information on
social marketing undertaken in Hull is given within each section below (section 8.4.7 for
smoking; section 8.5.8 for obesity, section 8.6.7 for exercise, section 8.7.10 for diet
and section 8.8.10 for alcohol consumption).
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