Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part one: Health education and health behavior: the foundations -- T he scope of health behavior and health education / The editors -- Theor y, research, and practice in health behavior and health education / The editors --

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

Part three: Models of interpersonal health behavior -- How individua ls, environments, and health behaviors interact: social cognitive theor y / Alfred L. McAlister, Cheryl L. Perry, and Guy S. Parcel -- Social n etworks and social support / Catherine A. Heaney and Barbara A. Israel -- Stress, coping, and health behavior / Karen Glanz and Marc D. Schwar tz -- Key interpersonal functions and health outcomes: lessons from the ory and research on clinician-patient communication / Richard L. Street Jr. and Ronald M. Epstein -- Perspectives on models of interpersonal h ealth behavior / K. Viswanath --

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

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