Abstract:

Though legislation is a quick and easy method of preventing behavioral lifestyle that is injurious to health, many failures may occur in a legal environment, which promotes fundamental human right. Besides, the coercive approach involved in this regulatory approach to health behavioral modification is against the ethics of health education. Health education is practiced in a legal environment of human rights and freedom of choice between health promoting and health disruptive life styles. It is therefore important to device ethically permissible strategies for modifying health behavior in order to achieve success in an environment of counteracting legal considerations and compelling need for healthy lifestyle in the community

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