The essential health behavior text, updated with the latesttheories, research, and issues Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides athorough introduction to understanding and changing healthbehavior, core tenets of the public health role. 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. 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