Changing Health Behaviour (Paperback)

For many years, social cognition models have been at the forefront of research into predicting and explaining health behaviours. Until recently, there have been few attempts to go beyond prediction and understanding to "intervention" - but now the position has changed, and a number of excellent interventions have been set up. The purpose of this book is to bring them together in one volume.;There are nine chapters each addressing a particular behaviour or set of behaviours. Chapters 2 to 4 examine risk related behaviours (safer sex; smoking; exposure to radon gas); Chapters 5 to 7 turn to health-enhancing behaviours and screening (reducing fat intake; uptake of vitamin C; breats self-examination; participation in cervical and colorectal cancer screening); and Chapters 8 to 10 explore road safety (speeding by drivers; pedestrian behaviour; and cycle helmut use). The chapters follow a common structure: a presentation of the "epidemiological facts" about the behaviour and why an intervention was needed; an outline of the way in which the theoretical model being used was adapted for the intervention; a presentation of the experimental results; and a discussion of their theoretical and

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Imprint:	Open University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	Jill Rutter
Dimensions:	225 x 155 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-335-20432-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Health psychology Promotions
LSN:	0-335-20432-5
Barcode:	9780335204328

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