2015, ISBN: 1118628985

[EAN: 9781118628980], Neubuch, [SC: 36.7], [PU: John Wiley & Sons Inc Sep 2015], Neuware - The essential health behavior text, updated with the latest theories, research, and issuesHealth… More...

[EAN: 9781118628980], Neubuch, [SC: 36.7], [PU: John Wiley & Sons Inc Sep 2015], Neuware - The essential health behavior text, updated with the latest theories, research, and issuesHealth Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides a thorough introduction to understanding and changing health behavior, core tenets of the public health role. Covering theory, applications, and research, this comprehensive book has become the gold standard of health behavior texts. This new fifth edition has been updated to reflect the most recent changes in the public health field with a focus on health behavior, including coverage of the intersection of health and community, culture, and communication, with detailed explanations of both established and emerging theories. Offering perspective applicable at the individual, interpersonal, group, and community levels, this essential guide provides the most complete coverage of the field to give public health students and practitioners an authoritative reference for both the theoretical and practical aspects of health behavior.A deep understanding of human behaviors is essential for effective public health and health care management. This guide provides the most complete, up-to-date information in the field, to give you a real-world understanding and the background knowledge to apply it successfully.\\* Learn how e-health and social media factor into health communication\\* Explore the link between culture and health, and the importance of community\\* Get up to date on emerging theories of health behavior and their applications\\* Examine the push toward evidence-based interventions, and global applicationsWritten and edited by the leading health and social behavior theorists and researchers, Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides the information and real-world perspective that builds a solid understanding of how to analyze and improve health behaviors and health. 512 pp. Engl, Books<

ISBN: 9781118628980

Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice, Fifth Edition, is a thorough introduction to the practice of health education and health promotion, covering the theories, applications, a… More...

Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice, Fifth Edition, is a thorough introduction to the practice of health education and health promotion, covering the theories, applications, and research of most use to public health students and practitioners. Through four editions, with more than 100,000 copies sold, this book has become the gold-standard textbook for health behavior courses. This essential resource includes the most current information on theory, research, and practice at individual, interpersonal, and community and group levels, with substantial new content on current and emerging theories of health communication, social marketing and e-health, culturally diverse communities, health promotion, the impact of stress, the importance of networks and community, social marketing, and evaluation. New contents include an update to the selection of theories, both established and emerging; e-health and social media as integrated into health communication; global health as an application of health behavior theory; culture and health disparities; more guidance on how to select suitable theories for specific problems/issues. In addition to a selection of basic ancillary materials, the editors offer a dedicated website with student-written theory in action" examples; expanded bibliographies; exemplar measures of theoretical constructs; and relevant links"-- Books<

2015, ISBN: 9781118628980

Hardcover, 5th edition. 485 pages. 9.25x7.25x1.25 inches., Libro nuevo, [PU: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub]

2015, ISBN: 9781118628980

JOHN WILEY, 2015. Paperback. New., JOHN WILEY, 2015, 6