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Health Behavior - Emerging Research Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
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Health Behavior - Emerging Research Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
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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."
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