Overview
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Ralph J. DiClemente
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School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and School of Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, and Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
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John L. Peterson
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Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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- Ralph J. DiClemente, John L. Peterson
Pages 1-4
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- Irwin M. Rosenstock, Victor J. Strecher, Marshall H. Becker
Pages 5-24
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- Martin Fishbein, Susan E. Middlestadt, Penelope J. Hitchcock
Pages 61-78
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- James W. Dearing, Gary Meyer, Everett M. Rogers
Pages 79-93
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- Samuel R. Friedman, Don C. Des Jarlais, Thomas P. Ward
Pages 95-116
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- Douglas Kirby, Ralph J. DiClemente
Pages 117-139
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- John B. Jemmott III, Loretta Sweet Jemmott
Pages 141-174
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- Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Julie Feldman, Margaret Rosario, Edward Dunne
Pages 175-188
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- Laurie Roehrich, Tamara L. Wall, James L. Sorensen
Pages 189-208
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- John K. Watters, Joseph Guydish
Pages 209-225
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- Nancy S. Padian, Janneke H. H. M. van de Wijgert, Thomas R. O’Brien
Pages 227-242
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- Janet S. Moore, Janet S. Harrison, Lynda S. Doll
Pages 243-265
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- Robert B. Hays, John L. Peterson
Pages 267-296
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- John L. Peterson, Ralph J. DiClemente
Pages 319-322
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Back Matter
Pages 323-336
About this book
Public health has a legacy of neglect regarding social and behavioral research. Too often, prompted by technical and scientific progress, we have ignored even marginalized-the vital "human element" in health thinking and prac tice. Thus, for example, while family planning programs focused on providing a choice among safe and effective contraceptive methods (a supremely worthy goal), the central issue of sexuality and sexual behavior was generally neglected. Similarly, the enormous and important efforts to develop rapid and reliable diagnostic and treatment methods for sexually transmitted diseases helped divert attention away from the crucial issues of sexual practice. In short, we seem to have difficulty addressing the fundamental behaviors-including sex, drug taking and other intoxications, and violence-that are central to the major causes of preventable morbidity, disability, and premature mortality in the world today. Our collective reluctance to examine and understand ourselves is also expressed in the oft-repeated pipedream that scientific progress will "take care of" the HIV / AIDS pandemic by delivering a preventive vaccine, an effective cure, or both. Yet even a cursory glance at the relationship between scientific/ technical progress and health shows that meeting the scientific challenges is only one step toward effective application of the vaccine or drug. It is typical, not atypical, that hepatitis B vaccine is only now becoming relatively freely available to large populations in the developing world, more than a decade after the vaccine's licensure.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and School of Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, and Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
Ralph J. DiClemente
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Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
John L. Peterson