title: [Variables involved in the individual and collective practice of healthy habits].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To conduct a descriptive review of the concepts related to the practice of healthy habits by identifying the main variables associated with their managment in terms of health promotion actions.
  
  
  METHODS
  In consultation with groups working in health promotion in the city of performed by consulting databases and documentary sources. The strategy and criteria for the selection of documents was previously defined. Finally, we proceeded to organizing and structuring the information.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It was established that, to promote healthy habits, four groups of behavior are involved: a) consumption, b) phyisical activity and hygiene, c) safety, and d) social participation. All of these are reviewed in order to point out the main concepts contained in each.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The promotion of healthy habits must involve not only the transmission of behaviors associated with them. It must also involve understanding and adapting these habits to the environments of life in which people operate, with consideration for the different roles that they perform and the psychological and cultural demands that each space implies.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Salud Pública, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, jcgarciau@unal.edu.co.
authors.forename: Juan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: García-Ubaque
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Tecnología, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia, cagarciau@udistrital.edu.co.
authors.forename: César A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: García-Ubaque
authors.affiliation: Investigadora Independiente, Bogotá, Colombia, ml.vaca68@uniandes.edu.co.
authors.forename: Martha L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Vaca-Bohórquez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003105:Colombia; D003469:Culture; D004032:Diet; D004363:Drug Utilization; D006184:Habits; D015438:Health Behavior; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008019:Life Style; D009043:Motor Activity; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012380:Role; D012449:Safety; D012919:Social Behavior; D013663:Teaching