Health Behavior, Education, & Promotion
In clear and accessible language, this text provides the student with a background of the kinds of social and behavioral theories that guide our understanding of health related behavior and form the background for health promotion and ...
This edition responds to new developments in health behavior theories and their application in new settings, to new populations, and in new ways.
The fourth edition of the landmark book, Health Behavior and Health Education, offers an accessible, comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the health behavior theories and practices that are most relevant to health education.
This book is intended as a core textbook for courses in public health that examines current issues in health from a social and behavioral science perspective.
Interactive activities based on the text and on extracts from primary sources are used to encourage critical reflection and debate.
Ho, G. Y. F., Bierman, R., Beardsley, L., et al. 1998. Natural history of cervicovaginal papillomavirus infection in young women. New EnglandJournal ofMedicine 338:423–28. Six hundred and eight college women were examined every 6 months ...
Lisa A. Quinn, MSN, CRNP, is an assistant professor in the Villa Maria School of Nursing, Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania. Sharon J. Thompson, PhD, RN, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Villa Maria School of Nursing, ...
In addition to a fine collection of case studies, this book puts the key issues for researchers and practitioners in a historical, philosophical, and applied, practical context Praise for the Second Edition of Community-Based Participatory ...
After presenting the rationale for behavioral science in public health practice, the text methodically describes each theory or set of related theories with ample examples and research that demonstrate how they are applied in public health ...
... p. 4) change in behavior but utilizes measures that compel an individual's behavior change. ... dates to the late 19th century, when the first academic programs emerged for training school health educators (Allegrante et al., 2004).