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Some of the advocates of this trend of thought are those who place greater emphasis on the reduction of risk factors than over the more difficult and complex task of modification of socio-cultural and political environments. Some HP “fanatics” subscribe to the notion that to change communities and groups, it is necessary first to change each individual. Yet, there is sufficient evidence to affirm that collective behavior is not the sum of individual ones. There is also evidence that individual behavior is shaped by social forces and to change individual behavior, social conditions must be changed. Fanatics of individual life-style changes always end up “blaming the victim”.