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The Handbook of Health Behavior Change
Cód:
491_9780826180131
This revised and updated fifth edition of the highly acclaimed gold standard textbook continues to providea foundational review of health behavior change theories, research methodologies, and interventionstrategies across a range of populations, age groups, and health conditions. It examines numerous, complex, andoften co-occurring factors that can both positively and negatively influence peoples ability to change behaviorsto enhance their health including intrapersonal, interpersonal, sociocultural, environmental, systems, andpolicy factors, in the context of leading theoretical frameworks. Beyond understanding predictors and barriersto achieving meaningful health behavior change, the Handbook provides an updated review of the evidencebase for novel and well-supported behavioral interventions and offers recommendations for future research.New content includes chapters on Sun Protection, Interventions With the Family System, and the Roleof Technology in Behavior Change. Throughout the textbook, updated reviews emphasize mobile healthtechnologies and electronic health data capture and transmission and a focus on implementation science. Andthe fifth edition, like the previous edition, provides learning objectives to facilitate use by course instructors inhealth psychology, behavioral medicine, and public health.The Handbook of Health Behavior Change, Fifth Edition, is a valuable resource for students at the graduate andadvanced undergraduate level in the fields of public or population health, medicine, behavioral science, healthcommunications, medical sociology and anthropology, preventive medicine, and health psychology. It also isa great reference for clinical investigators, behavioral and social scientists, and healthcare practitioners whograpple with the challenges of supporting individuals, families, and systems when trying to make impactfulhealth behavior change.
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