Health Education and Behavior
SCOPUS (1957-1970,1972-1978,1980-2023)SSCI-ISI
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Cơ quản chủ quản: SAGE Publications Inc.
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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
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Health Promotion by Social Cognitive Means This article examines health promotion and disease prevention from the perspective of social cognitive theory. This theory posits a multifaceted causal structure in which self-efficacy beliefs operate together with goals, outcome expectations, and perceived environmental impediments and facilitators in the regulation of human motivation, behavior, and well-being. Belief in one’s efficacy ... ...
Tập 31 Số 2 - Trang 143-164 - 2004
A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeals: Implications for Effective Public Health Campaigns The fear appeal literature is examined in a comprehensive synthesis using meta-analytical techniques. The meta-analysis suggests that strong fear appeals produce high levels of perceived severity and susceptibility, and are more persuasive than low or weak fear appeals. The results also indicate that fear appeals motivate adaptive danger control actions such as message acceptance and mala... ...
Tập 27 Số 5 - Trang 591-615 - 2000
Achieving Cultural Appropriateness in Health Promotion Programs: Targeted and Tailored Approaches It is a truism of health education that programs and interventions will be more effective when they are culturally appropriate for the populations they serve. In practice, however, the strategies used to achieve cultural appropriateness vary widely. This article briefly describes five strategies commonly used to target programs to culturally defined groups. It then explains how a sixth ap... ...
Tập 30 Số 2 - Trang 133-146 - 2003
Health Literacy and Health Actions: A Review and a Framework From Health Psychology The association between performance on health literacy measures and health outcomes is well established. The next step is to understand the processes through which health literacy affects health. This review introduces a framework drawing on ideas from health psychology and proposing that associations between health literacy and health outcomes could be mediated by a range of health actio... ...
Tập 36 Số 5 - Trang 860-877 - 2009
Physical Activity and Minority Women: A Qualitative Study Few physical activity research studies have been conducted with minority women. The purpose of this study was to explore patterns of physical activity among minority women. Focus groups were conducted with volunteers older than age 40. Each group was led by a trained moderator familiar with the ethnic community targeted. The sessions were audiotaped and professionally transcribed. Constru... ...
Tập 25 Số 5 - Trang 640-652 - 1998
Making the Most of Collaboration: Exploring the Relationship Between Partnership Synergy and Partnership Functioning Considering the challenges inherent to collaboration and the time it takes to achieve measurable outcomes, partnerships need a way to determine, at an early stage, whether they are making the most of collaboration. The authors have developed a new measure, partnership synergy, which assesses the degree to which a partnership’s collaborative process successfully combines its participants’ ... ...
Tập 29 Số 6 - Trang 683-698 - 2002
Peer and Parent Influences on Smoking and Drinking among Early Adolescents Social influences can promote or discourage adolescent substance use. The authors surveyed 4,263 sixth- to eighth-grade students to assess the effect of peer and parent influences on adolescent substance use. The authors conducted separate multiple logistic regression analyses for smoking and drinking, controlling for grade, sex, and race. Positive independent associations with smoking an... ...
Tập 28 Số 1 - Trang 95-107 - 2001
Personal Responsibility for Health? A Review of the Arguments and the Evidence at Century’s End This article examines the continuing controversies regarding personal versus social responsibility for health as they are being played out at the turn of the century. Following a brief examination of the contested meaning of “personal responsibility for health” in recent historical context, attention is focused on the arguments for and against holding the individual to be primarily accoun... ...
Tập 26 Số 1 - Trang 121-141 - 1999
A Randomized School Trial of Environmental Strategies to Encourage Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Children The Cafeteria Power Plus project examined whether a cafeteria-based intervention would increase the fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption of children. Twenty-six schools were randomly assigned to either an intervention or control condition. Baseline lunch observations of a sample ( N = 1668) of first- and third-grade students occurred in the spring of 2000; follow-up was in the spring of 2... ...
Tập 31 Số 1 - Trang 65-76 - 2004
Promoting Environmental Justice Through Community-Based Participatory Research: The Role of Community and Partnership Capacity Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is being used to study and address environmental justice. This article presents the results of a cross-site case study of four CBPR partnerships in the United States that researched environmental health problems and worked to educate legislators and promote relevant public policy. The authors focus on community and partnership cap... ...
Tập 35 Số 1 - Trang 119-137 - 2008