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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