A Study of Health Behaviour Among Students

Absztrakt

Health status in Hungary has been deteriorating since the mid-1960s, with the result that Hungary lags behind countries – mainly Western European – with developed health cultures. Taking this into consideration our scientific interest turned to the examination of health awareness, drinking and smoking habits, healthy lifestyles and state of health and environmental awareness of adolescents and youngsters. To realize these tasks, during the set-up of the sample our aim was to provide representativeness and randomness. Our research found that those pupils, who had a harmonious relationship with their parents, maintained a lower level (substance abuse) smoking and smoking frequency characteristic.
No less important is the observation that youngsters try out smoking at an everyounger age, but they are far too optimistic in assessing their own health.