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Behavioural Change
1st Edition
An Evidence-Based Handbook for Social and Public Health
Authors:
- Print ISBN 9780443073571
Key Features
For all topics, the following questions are posed:
- What is the scope of the problem within the international communities?
- What approaches are typically used to prevent or treat it?
- What is the evidence as to the most effective approaches to prevention and treatment?
- What is the performance of these approaches in terms of prevention/diversion and full or partial recovery for the short and long term?
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Models of behaviour change and health promotion
3. Achieving effectiveness in health promotion programs: evidence, infrastructure and action
4. Eating and nutrition
5. Sexual health and behaviour change
6. Alcohol and drug use: Theoretical integration of interventions to prevent harm.
7. Changing physical activity and exercise patterns
8. Tobacco dependence, smoking prevention and cessation
9. Management of depression
10. Interventions for insomnia
11. Problematic gambling behaviour
12. Crash and injury prevention
13. Self-management and chronic illness
14. Pushing the boundaries of evidence-based research: enhancing the application and sustainability of health promotion programs in diverse populations
15. The way forward in the design and development of effective behaviour change programs
2. Models of behaviour change and health promotion
3. Achieving effectiveness in health promotion programs: evidence, infrastructure and action
4. Eating and nutrition
5. Sexual health and behaviour change
6. Alcohol and drug use: Theoretical integration of interventions to prevent harm.
7. Changing physical activity and exercise patterns
8. Tobacco dependence, smoking prevention and cessation
9. Management of depression
10. Interventions for insomnia
11. Problematic gambling behaviour
12. Crash and injury prevention
13. Self-management and chronic illness
14. Pushing the boundaries of evidence-based research: enhancing the application and sustainability of health promotion programs in diverse populations
15. The way forward in the design and development of effective behaviour change programs
Details
- No. of pages:
- 306
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © 2006
- Published:
- 2nd December 2005
- Imprint:
- Churchill Livingstone
- Print ISBN:
- 9780443073571
About the authors
Colette Browning
Affiliations and Expertise
Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia
Shane Thomas
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor and Director of Primary Care Research, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Monash University, Melbourne, Australia