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Health Behavior

Emerging Research Perspectives

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  1. David S. Gochman

    1. Raymond S. Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Conceptions of Health Behavior

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Health Behavior

      • David S. Gochman
      Pages 3-17

  3. Determinants of Health Behavior

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-26
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    2. Personal Determinants Cognitive Determinants

      1. The Health Belief Model and Predictions of Health Actions
        • John P. Kirscht
        Pages 27-41
      2. Beliefs about Control and Health Behavior
        • Richard R. Lau
        Pages 43-63

    3. Personal Determinants Personal Characteristics and Life-Style

      1. Life-Style and Health Behavior
        • John G. Bruhn
        Pages 71-86
      2. Pathways to Health Behavior
        • Patricia J. Bush, Ronald J. Iannotti
        Pages 87-102

    4. Family Determinants

      1. Family Determinants of Health Behaviors
        • James F. Sallis, Philip R. Nader
        Pages 107-124

    5. Social Determinants Social Structure and Networks

      1. Social Group Characteristics and Health Behavior
        • Reed Geertsen
        Pages 131-148
      2. Social Supports, Social Networks, and Health Behaviors
        • Christian Ritter
        Pages 149-161

    6. Social Determinants Social Roles

      1. The Sick-Role Concept
        • Arnold Arluke
        Pages 169-180
      2. Sick-Role Legitimization
        • Fredric D. Wolinsky
        Pages 181-192
      3. Gender and Health-Related Behavior
        • Ingrid Waldron
        Pages 193-208

    7. Institutional Determinants

      1. Organizational Influences on Patient Health Behaviors
        • James R. Greenley, Robert E. Davidson
        Pages 215-229
      2. The Design of Physical Environments and Health Behavior
        • Bruce A. Whitehead, Alice E. Fusillo, Stephen Kaplan
        Pages 231-241

    8. Cultural Determinants

      1. Cultural Factors in Sick-Role Expectations
        • Alexander Segall
        Pages 249-260
      2. A Transcultural Perspective on Health Behavior
        • Hazel H. Weidman
        Pages 261-280

  4. Health Behavior and the Care Delivery System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-291
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    2. Perceptions and Interactions

      1. Reciprocity in the Medical Encounter
        • Debra L. Roter
        Pages 293-303
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About this book

HEALTH BEHAVIOR AS BASIC RESEARCH Health behavior is not a traditional discipline, but a newly emerging interdisciplinary field. It is still in the process of establishing its identity. Few institutional or organizational structures, i. e. , departments and programs, reflect it, and few books and journals are directed at it. The primary objective of this book is thus to identify and establish health behavior as an important area of basic research, worthy of being studied in its own right. As a basic research area, health behavior transcends commitment to a particular behavior, a specific illness or health problem, or a single set of determinants. One way of achieving this objective is to look at health behavior as an outcome of a range of personal and social determinants, rather than as a set of risk factors or as targets for intervention strategies directed at behavioral change. The book is thus organized pri­ marily in terms of the size of the determinants of concern, rather than in terms of specific health behaviors, or specific health problems or conditions. With the first part of the book establishing working defmitions of health behavior and health behavior research as basic frameworks, the second part moves from smaller to larger systems, informing the reader about basic research that demonstrates how health behavior is determined by personal, family, social, institutional, and cultural factors. These distinctions reflect some arbitrar­ iness: the family, organizations, and institutions, for example, are social units.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Raymond S. Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA

    David S. Gochman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Health Behavior

  • Book Subtitle: Emerging Research Perspectives

  • Editors: David S. Gochman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0833-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42874-6Published: 31 August 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0835-3Published: 01 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0833-9Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 440

  • Topics: Public Health, Epidemiology, Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology

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