Main description:

The essential health behavior text, updated with the latest theories, research, and issues 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.

Contents:

Tables and Figures vii Foreword by Robert T. Croyle xi Preface xv About the Editors xx About the Contributors xxiii Part One: Health Behavior: The Foundations 1 Chapter 1 The Scope of Health Behavior 3 The Editors Chapter 2 Theory, Research, and Practice in Health Behavior 23 The Editors Chapter 3 Ecological Models of Health Behavior 43 James F. Sallis and Neville Owen Part Two: Models of Individual Health Behavior 65 Chapter 4 Introduction to Health Behavior Theories That Focus on Individuals 67 Barbara K. Rimer and Noel T. Brewer Chapter 5 The Health Belief Model 75 Celette Sugg Skinner, Jasmin Tiro, and Victoria L. Champion Chapter 6 Theory of Reasoned Action, Theory of Planned Behavior, and the Integrated Behavioral Model 95 Daniel E. Montano and Danuta Kasprzyk Chapter 7 The Transtheoretical Model and Stages of Change 125 James O. Prochaska, Colleen A. Redding, and Kerry E. Evers Part Three: Models of Interpersonal Health Behavior 149 Chapter 8 Introduction to Models of Interpersonal Influences on Health Behavior 151 Catherine A. Heaney and K. Viswanath Chapter 9 How Individuals, Environments, and Health Behaviors Interact 159 Steven H. Kelder, Deanna Hoelscher, and Cheryl L. Perry Chapter 10 Social Support and Health 183 Julianne Holt-Lunstad and Bert N. Uchino Chapter 11 Social Networks and Health Behavior 205 Thomas W. Valente Chapter 12 Stress, Coping, and Health Behavior 223 Elaine Wethington, Karen Glanz, and Marc D. Schwartz Chapter 13 Interpersonal Communication in Health and Illness 243 Ashley Duggan and Richard L. Street Jr. Part Four: Community and Group Models of Health Behavior Change 269 Chapter 14 Introduction to Community and Group Models of Health Behavior Change 271 Karen Glanz and Alice Ammerman Chapter 15 Improving Health Through Community Engagement, Community Organization, and Community Building 277 Nina Wallerstein, Meredith Minkler, Lori Carter-Edwards, Magdalena Avila, and Victoria Sanchez Chapter 16 Implementation, Dissemination, and Diffusion of Public Health Interventions 301 Ross C. Brownson, Rachel G. Tabak, Katherine A. Stamatakis, and Karen Glanz Chapter 17 Communication and Health Behavior in a Changing Media Environment 327 K. Viswanath, John R. Finnegan Jr., and Sarah Gollust Part Five: Using Theory in Research and Practice 349 Chapter 18 Introduction to Using Theory in Research and Practice 351 The Editors Chapter 19 Planning Models for Theory-Based Health Promotion Interventions 359 L. Kay Bartholomew, Christine Markham, Pat Mullen, and Maria E. Fernandez Chapter 20 Behavioral Economics and Health 389 Kevin Volpp, George Loewenstein, and David Asch Chapter 21 SocialMarketing 411 J. Douglas Storey, Ronald Hess, and Gary Saffitz Name Index 439 Subject Index 469