Topics: Economics and Personal Finances, Socioeconomic Class. 1  Richard Fry is a senior researcher focusing on economics and education at Pew Research Center. 2  Rakesh Kochhar is an associate director of research at Pew Research Center.
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (Commonwealth English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the (inanimate) physical environment.
Health behaviors (such as tobacco use and diet) account for 30 percent, while the physical environment accounts for 10 percent. According to the model, fully 40 percent of population health relates to social and economic factors such as education, employment, income, safety, and social support.