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Health behavior: theory, research, and practice

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Jossey-bass public healthPublication details: San Francisco Jossey-Bass 2015Edition: 5th edDescription: xxv, 485 pISBN:
  • 9781118628980
Uniform titles:
  • Health behavior and health education
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 613 H3-2015
Summary: Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides a thorough introduction to understanding and changing health behavior, core tenets of the public health role. Covering theory, applications, and research, this comprehensive book has become the gold standard of health behavior texts. This new fifth edition has been updated to reflect the most recent changes in the public health field with a focus on health behavior, including coverage of the intersection of health and community, culture, and communication, with detailed explanations of both established and emerging theories. Offering perspective applicable at the individual, interpersonal, group, and community levels, this essential guide provides the most complete coverage of the field to give public health students and practitioners an authoritative reference for both the theoretical and practical aspects of health behavior. A deep understanding of human behaviors is essential for effective public health and health care management. This guide provides the most complete, up-to-date information in the field, to give you a real-world understanding and the background knowledge to apply it successfully. Learn how e-health and social media factor into health communication Explore the link between culture and health, and the importance of community Get up to date on emerging theories of health behavior and their applications Examine the push toward evidence-based interventions, and global applications Written and edited by the leading health and social behavior theorists and researchers, Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides the information and real-world perspective that builds a solid understanding of how to analyze and improve health behaviors and health. http://as.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118628985.html
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Table of Contents


Tables and Figures
Foreword by Robert T. Croyle
Preface
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Part One: Health Behavior: The Foundations

Chapter 1 The Scope of Health Behavior
The Editors

Chapter 2 Theory, Research, and Practice in Health Behavior
The Editors

Chapter 3 Ecological Models of Health Behavior
James F. Sallis and Neville Owen
Part Two: Models of Individual Health Behavior

Chapter 4 Introduction to Health Behavior Theories That Focus on Individuals
Barbara K. Rimer and Noel T. Brewer

Chapter 5 The Health Belief Model
Celette Sugg Skinner, Jasmin Tiro, and Victoria L. Champion

Chapter 6 Theory of Reasoned Action, Theory of Planned Behavior, and the Integrated Behavioral Mode
Daniel E. Montaño and Danuta Kasprzyk

Chapter 7 The Transtheoretical Model and Stages of Change James O. Prochaska, Colleen A. Redding, and Kerry E. Evers
Part Three: Models of Interpersonal Health Behavior

Chapter 8 Introduction to Models of Interpersonal Influences on Health Behavior \
Catherine A. Heaney and K. Viswanath

Chapter 9 How Individuals, Environments, and Health Behaviors Interact
Steven H. Kelder, Deanna Hoelscher, and Cheryl L. Perry

Chapter 10 Social Support and Health\
Julianne Holt-Lunstad and Bert N. Uchino

Chapter 11 Social Networks and Health Behavior
Thomas W. Valente

Chapter 12 Stress, Coping, and Health Behavior
Elaine Wethington, Karen Glanz, and Marc D. Schwartz

Chapter 13 Interpersonal Communication in Health and Illness
Ashley Duggan and Richard L. Street Jr.
Part Four: Community and Group Models of Health Behavior Change

Chapter 14 Introduction to Community and Group Models of Health Behavior Change
Karen Glanz and Alice Ammerman

Chapter 15 Improving Health Through Community Engagement, Community Organization, and Community Building
Nina Wallerstein, Meredith Minkler, Lori Carter-Edwards, Magdalena Avila, and Victoria Sánchez

Chapter 16 Implementation, Dissemination, and Diffusion of Public Health Interventions
Ross C. Brownson, Rachel G. Tabak, Katherine A. Stamatakis, and Karen Glanz

Chapter 17 Communication and Health Behavior in a Changing Media Environment K. Viswanath, John R. Finnegan Jr., and Sarah Gollust
Part Five: Using Theory in Research and Practice

Chapter 18 Introduction to Using Theory in Research and Practice
The Editors

Chapter 19 Planning Models for Theory-Based Health Promotion Interventions
L. Kay Bartholomew, Christine Markham, Pat Mullen, and María E. Fernández

Chapter 20 Behavioral Economics and Health
Kevin Volpp, George Loewenstein, and David Asch
Chapter 21 SocialMarketing
J. Douglas Storey, Ronald Hess, and Gary Saffitz
Name Index
Subject Index .


Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides a thorough introduction to understanding and changing health behavior, core tenets of the public health role. Covering theory, applications, and research, this comprehensive book has become the gold standard of health behavior texts. This new fifth edition has been updated to reflect the most recent changes in the public health field with a focus on health behavior, including coverage of the intersection of health and community, culture, and communication, with detailed explanations of both established and emerging theories. Offering perspective applicable at the individual, interpersonal, group, and community levels, this essential guide provides the most complete coverage of the field to give public health students and practitioners an authoritative reference for both the theoretical and practical aspects of health behavior.

A deep understanding of human behaviors is essential for effective public health and health care management. This guide provides the most complete, up-to-date information in the field, to give you a real-world understanding and the background knowledge to apply it successfully.

Learn how e-health and social media factor into health communication
Explore the link between culture and health, and the importance of community
Get up to date on emerging theories of health behavior and their applications
Examine the push toward evidence-based interventions, and global applications

Written and edited by the leading health and social behavior theorists and researchers, Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides the information and real-world perspective that builds a solid understanding of how to analyze and improve health behaviors and health.


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