Handbook of health behavior research
Subtitle: Relevance for professionals and issues for the future
By: edited by David S. Gochman, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
Published: 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
ISBN-13: 9781489904843; 9781489917577; 9781489904867
Subjects: Recherche scientifique; Recherche; Health Behavior; Style de vie; Medicine & Public Health; Public Health; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Research; Hygiène; Medische psychologie; Health behavior; Habitudes sanitaires; Handbooks; Comportement; Personality and Social Psychology; Santé
Other titles: Relevance for professionals and issues for the future
Description: Volume 4 considers the importance of health behavior research in practical settings. Particularly notable are treatments of the "narrative approach", the taxonomy of health behavior, and the organization of health behavior knowledge. Each volume features extensive supplementary and integrative material prepared by the editor, the detailed index to the entire four-volume set, and a glossary of health behavior terminology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Print version record.
Table of contents: title: I. Professional Training and Practice; title: 1. Relevance of Health Behavior Research to Training and Practice in the Health Professions: An Overview; title: 2. Health Behavior Research and Medical Training: A New Paradigm; title: 3. Health Behavior Research: What Physicians Must Know; title: 4. Health Behavior Research and Medical Training and Practice: A Social Context; title: 5. Relevance of Health Behavior Research for Nursing; title: 6. Health Behavior Research and Social Work; title: 7. Health Behavior Research and Oral Health; title: 8. Relevance of Health Behavior Research to Health Promotion and Health Education; title: 9. Relevance of Health Behavior Research to Public Health Professionals; title: II. Health Management and Health Policy; title: 10. Health Services Management and Health Behavior; title: 11. Paternalism and Health Behavior; title: 12. Health Policy, Health Behavior, and Injury Control; title: 13. Health Policy and Smoking and Tobacco Use; title: III. Planned Applications; title: 14. Health Behavior Research and School and Youth Health Promotion; title: 15. Contributions of Health Behavior Research to Community Health Promotion Programs; title: 16. Health Behavior Interventions with Families; title: 17. Stories to Live By: A Narrative Approach to Health Behavior Research and Injury Prevention; title: 18. Health Behavior Research and Communication Campaigns; title: IV. Toward the Future: An Integration; title: 19. Relevance of Health Behavior Research: An Integration of Applications; title: 20. Health Behavior Research, Cognate Disciplines, Future Identity, and an Organizing Matrix: An Integration of Perspectives; title: Concepts and Definitions: A Glossary for Health Behavior Research; title: of Volumes I-IV; title: Index to Volumes I-IV.