Health Behavior : Theory, Research and Practice / Karen Glanz, Barbara K. Rimer, K. Viswanath.

Revision of: Health behavior and health education. 2008. 4th ed.

Includes Bibliographical references and Index

CONTENTS
Part one: Health behavior, the foundations.
Chapter 1 The scope of health behavior --
Chapter 2 Theory, research, and practice in health behavior --
Chapter 3 Ecological models of health behavior --
Part two: Models of individual health behavior.
Chapter 4 Introduction to health behavior theories that focus on individuals --
Chapter 5 The health belief model --
Chapter 6 Theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, and the integrated behavioral model --
Chapter 7 The transtheoretical model and stages of change --
Part three: models of interpersonal health behavior.
Chapter 8 Introduction to models of interpersonal influences on health behavior --
Chapter 9 How individuals, environments, and health behaviors interact --
Chapter 10 Social support and health --
Chapter 11 Social networks and health behavior --
Chapter 12 Stress, coping, and health behavior --
Chapter 13 Interpersonal communication in health and illness --
Part four: Community and group models of health behavior change.
Chapter 14 Introduction to community and group models of health behavior change --
Chapter 15 Improving health through community engagement, community organization, and community building --
Chapter 16 Implementation, dissemination, and diffusion of public health interventions --
Chapter 17 Communication and health behavior in a changing media environment --
Part five: Using theory in research and practice.
Chapter 18 Introduction to using theory in research and practice --
Chapter 19 Planning models for theory-based health promotion interventions --
Chapter 20 Behavioral economics and health
Chapter 21 Social marketing.

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