National Survey of Personal Health Practices and Consequences: background, conceptual issues, and selected findings.

Abstract

IN 1965, HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRES were completed by nearly 7,000 people constituting a probability-based sample of the adult residents of Alameda County, Calif. An analysis of the questionnaire data on the relationship of physical health status and health practices was reported by Belloc and Breslow in Preventive Medicine, August 1972 (1). The findings were described as follows: A striking examination that demonstrates the relationship between the whole spectrum of physical health and actual day-to-day practices.