The centrality of health behaviours: A network analytic approach.

By emphasizing behavioural connectivity, the approach applied herein has identified core health behaviours with potentially high impact on healthy lifestyle behaviours. Statement of Contribution What is already known on this subject? Many health behaviours are related to each other. Engagement in one health behaviour can affect engagement in other behaviours. What does this study add? Health behaviour can be viewed and analysed as a network. Sleep and nutrition behaviours are the most central behaviours in the network. Centrality varies as a function of socio-economic status and gender.