Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice

A LANDMARK VOLUME LINKING THEORY TO RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN THE CONTINUUM OF HEALTH BEHAVIOR

Advancing the science of health behavior through the informed application of health behavior theories, the new Fifth Edition of Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice serves as the definitive text for students, practitioners, and scientists in these areas. This edition responds to new developments in health behavior theories and their application in new settings, to new populations, and in new ways.

This book analyzes the key components of theories of health behavior, describing current applications of these theories and identifying important future directions for research and practice in health behavior change. This new edition discusses changes in the science and practice of public health and health promotion, updating the coverage of these areas in a rapidly evolving field.

Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice, Fifth Edition explores:

How e–health and social media factor into health communication The link between culture and health, and the importance of community Emerging theories of health behavior and their applications The push toward evidence–based interventions and global applications

Written and edited by leading health and social behavior theorists and researchers, Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice provides real–world perspective with a solid approach for the analysis and improvement of health behaviors and health.

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Foreword (Robert Croyle, Ph.D.)

Tables and Figures 

Preface        

The Editors  

The Contributors    

PART ONE Health Education and Health Behavior: The Foundations

1. The Scope of Health Behavior (The Editors)

2. Theory, Research, and Practice in Health Behavior     (The Editors)

3. Ecological Models of Health Behavior (James F. Sallis and Neville Owen)   

PART TWO Models of Individual Health Behavior         

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

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

6. Theory of Reasoned Action, Theory of Planned Behavior, and the Integrated Behavioral Model (Daniel E. Montaño and Danuta Kasprzyk)

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 

8. Introduction to Models of Interpersonal Influences on Health Behavior   (Catherine A. Heaney and K. Vish Viswanath)

9. How Individuals, Environments, and Health Behavior Interact: Social Cognitive Theory (Steven H. Kelder, Deanna Hoelscher and Cheryl L. Perry)

10. Social Support and Health  (Julianne Holt–Lunstad and Bert N. Uchino)

11. Social Networks and Health Behavior (Thomas W. Valente)

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

13. Interpersonal Communication in Health and Illness      (Ashley Duggan and Richard L. Street, Jr.)

PART FOUR Community and Group Models of Health Behavior Change

14. Introduction to Community and Group Models of Health Behavior Change (Karen Glanz and Alice Ammerman)

15. Improving Health Through Community Engagement, Community Organization, and Community Building (Nina Wallerstein, Meredith Minkler and Lori Carter–Edwards, Magdalena Avila and Victoria Sanchez)

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

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        

18. Introduction to Using Theory in Research and Practice (The Editors)

19. Planning Models for Theory–Based Health Promotion Interventions (L. Kay Bartholomew, Christine Markham, Pat Mullen and Maria Fernandez)

20. Behavioral Economics and Health (Kevin Volpp, George Loewenstein and David Asch)

21. Social Marketing (J. Douglas Storey, Ronald Hess and Gary Saffitz)

Glossary  

Name Index       

Subject Index     

KAREN GLANZ, PhD, MPH, is George A. Weiss University Professor, professor of epidemiology and nursing, and director of the Prevention Research Center and the Center for Health Behavior Research at the University of Pennsylvania.

BARBARA K. RIMER, DrPH, is dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor in the Department of Health Behavior in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

K. "VISH" VISWANATH, PhD, is professor of health communication in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and in the McGraw/Patterson Center for Population Sciences at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute.