Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1: Introduction to health behaviors & Disease prevention -- What is health -- What is health behavior -- Social Determinants of health -- Section 2: Health Behavior Theory -- Social Ecological models and health behavior theory -- Theories of Interpersonal Influence -- Theories of Interpersonal Influence -- Theories of networks and Communities -- Intergrating health behavior theories and building a theoretical model -- Section 3: Applying theory to improve practice -- Outcome logic models: the picture of program planning and evaluation -- Evidence-Based Interventions -- Infant mortality in montgomery county, Ohio: a case study.

This book is written specifically for professionals new to health behavior theory and challenged to shape the health behaviors of others. With its unique applied approach to learning theoretical constructs, this book changes the way you think and behave in relationship to planning health promotion programs. This text introduces theory as a foundation of deep factual knowledge that is then synthesized and built upon in ways that help you understand the relationships between behaviors and health, antecedents and behaviors, and interventions and antecedents. An innovative chapter on the PER Worksheet, a tool that combines the eight most popular health behavior theories into one framework, teaches you how to organize facts across the different theories as well as incorporate future knowledge. This book also offers comprehensive coverage of topics such as determinants of population health status, logic models and how both theory and models are useful for designing multi-level interventions of change.