Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: Health education and health behavior: The foundations -- The scope of health behavior and health education -- Theory, research, and practice in health behavior and health education.

Part two: Models of individual health behavior / Barbara K. Rimer -- The health belief model / Victoria L. Champion and Celette Sugg Skinner -- Theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, and the integrated behavioral model / Daniel E. Montaño and Danuta Kasprzyk -- The transtheoretical model and stages of change / James O. Prochaska, Colleen A. Redding, and Kerry E. Evers -- The precaution adoption process model / Neil D. Weinstein, Peter M. Sandman, and Susan J. Blalock -- Perspectives on health behavior theories that focus on individuals / Noel T. Brewer and Barbara K. Rimer --

Part three: Models of interpersonal health behavior -- How individuals, environments, and health behaviors interact: social cognitive theory / Alfred L. McAlister, Cheryl L. Perry, and Guy S. Parcel -- Social networks and social support / Catherine A. Heaney and Barbara A. Israel -- Stress, coping, and health behavior / Karen Glanz and Marc D. Schwartz -- Key interpersonal functions and health outcomes: lessons from theory and research on clinician-patient communication / Richard L. Street Jr. and Ronald M. Epstein -- Perspectives on models of interpersonal health behavior / K. Viswanath --

Part four: Community and group models of health behavior change / Karen Glanz -- Improving health through community organization and community building / Meredith Minkler, Nina Wallerstein, and Nance Wilson -- Diffusion of innovations / Brian Oldenburg and Karen Glanz -- Mobilizing organizations for health promotion: theories of organizational change / Frances Dunn Butterfoss, Michelle C. Kegler, and Vincent T. Francisco -- Communication theory and health behavior change: the media studies framework / John R. Finnegan Jr. and K. Viswanath -- Perspectives on group, organization, and community interventions / Michelle C. Kegler and Karen Glanz --

Part five: Using theory in research and practice -- Using the precede-proceed model to apply health behavior theories / Andrea Carson Gielen ... [et al.] -- Social marketing / J. Douglas Storey, Gary B. Saffitz, and Jose G. Rimón -- Ecological models of health behavior / James F. Sallis, Neville Owen, and Edwin B. Fisher -- Evaluation of theory-based interventions / Russell E. Glasgow and Laura A. Linnan -- Perspectives on using theory: past, present, and future / Karen Glanz and Barbara K. Rimer.