Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice [Hardcover]

Karen Glanz (Editor), Frances Marcus Lewis (Editor), Barbara K. Rimer (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0787903108 | ISBN-13: 978-0787903107 | Publication Date: January 15, 1997 | Edition: 2

This book can help all of us in the field fine-tune the effectiveness of strategies and interventions designied to improve health-related behaviors. This book is definitely on my list as one of the top five 'big picture theoretical framework' resources for the serious public health professional.
--American Journal of Health Promotion

The contributors draw from such fields as cognitive and organizational psychology, marketing, and communications to explain the diverse factors affecting health behavior.

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?The wealth of information...within this book can help all of us in the field fine-tune the effectiveness of strategies and interventions designed to improve health-related behaviors. This book is definitely on my list as one of the top five `big picture theoretical framework' resources for the serious public health professional.? (American Journal of Health Promotion)

?This edited volume does an admirable job of bridging the gap between theory and practice and providing examples of multiple levels of analysis—individual, group, organizational, and community...It is a valuable resource.?

?Frequently, in my role as a health educator and researcher, I have been asked by clinicians to recommAnd the reading or approach to use on how to change behavior. I have explained that it depAnds on one's theoretical perspective about health behavior and that no single study or approach has been proven to be clearly superior to another. In the future, however, I will be able to refer those who ask to the book by Glanz, Lewis, and Rimer.?

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Praise for Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice

"This book reflects with crystal clarity for students and practitioners the advances in theories and their application in health promotion and education since the previous edition, but also challenges the theorists and researchers to address the gaps that need to be filled before the next edition."
— Lawrence W. Green, visiting professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

"The third edition of Health Behavior and Health Education will be indispensable for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working to translate research into practice. This volume charts new territory-from research design to application-and gives the field the lift and vision we've needed."
— C. Tracy Orleans, senior scientist, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

"Regardless of the practice site for health educators, and the nature of the practical problems they address in their daily work, the theoretically-driven orientation of this book is a major resource. After all, there is nothing more practical than a good theory-and this text is full of them!"
— Nancy Fugate Woods, dean, School of Nursing, University of Washington

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 2 edition (January 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787903108
• ISBN-13: 978-0787903107
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,066,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A classic in the field of health education theory, July 5, 2005

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Andrew J. Degnan (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (Hardcover)

This revised edition of the classic work by Glanz et al. demonstrates the benefits of poignant insight into the classic psychosocial and behavioral theories and how they relate to the field of public health and health education. Glanz leads the reader through most all of the major theories that apply to designing a public health intervention. In many of the chapters dedicated to individual theories, she includes extensive case studies of the practical implications of the theoretical work described within the main body of each chapter. Along with the other authors of this extensive compilation of classic health behavior and health education literature, Glanz develops within the reader a cohesive and fundamental understanding of theoretical approaches in order to make a successful, calculated, relevant, and effective public health education intervention.

Simply glancing through the pages contained within Glanz's masterwork tells the reader of the depth and breadth of the field that she covers in compiling this work. The theories are diverse and the approaches taken by each author equally diverse. Glanz nevertheless manages to accomplish the improbable and weave together an outstanding work encompassing all of these models and theories. For the public health professional, student, physician, or educator, Glanz's classic text on health behavior is essential for a simple, yet detailed understanding of all aspects of health behavior.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Theory based research, October 14, 2000

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Kathleen A. Fagan (Mahwah, N. J.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (Hardcover)

This text is a comprehensive review of health related theories. It provides the reader with anlayses of several health behavior theories and extensive bibliographies. To the student who is interested in health behavior research, this text is an important first step because it gives many examples of how specific theories, concepts and constructs are used in research studies.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Health Behavior and Health Education, October 3, 2005

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L. Martinez (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (Hardcover)

This book is a must have for anyone in the health education field. It presents all major health behavior theories in a clear and understandable manner, applies theories to case studies at the end of each chapter, and offers a table summary of each theory's core constructs. The book is well written and with this third edition comes more updated research information.