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Sales Rank: 374890

Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 377
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 1

ISBN: 0309070309
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.019
EAN: 9780309070300
ASIN: 0309070309

Publication Date: July 15, 2001
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Over the past two decades, investigators have learned more about the links between health and behavior.

Health and Behavior reviews our improved understanding of the complex interplay among biological, psychological, and social influences and explores findings suggested by recent research. The book covers three main areas:

* What do biological, behavioral, and social sciences contribute to our understanding of health-including cardiovascular, immune system and brain functioning, behaviors that influence health, the role of social networks and socioeconomic status, and more.
* What can we learn from applied research on interventions to improve the health of individuals, families, communities, organizations, and larger populations?
* How can we expeditiously translate research findings into application?

With the perspective that individual willpower is only one thread in the fabric of health, the committee offers an ecological approach to health and behavior.

Book Description
Health and Behavior reviews our improved understanding of the complex interplay among biological, psychological, and social influences and explores findings suggested by recent research-including interventions at multiple levels that we can employ to improve human health.

The book covers three main areas:

What do biological, behavioral, and social sciences contribute to our understanding of health-including cardiovascular, immune system and brain functioning, behaviors that influence health, the role of social networks and socioeconomic status, and more.
What can we learn from applied research on interventions to improve the health of individuals, families, communities, organizations, and larger populations?
How can we expeditiously translate research findings into application?

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Current, relevent, and possibly the future of medicine January 16, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

People know smoking is bad for them, yet they continue to smoke. People want to lose weight but refuse to diet and exercise. Drinking and driving is still the major cause of fatal motor vehicle accidents despite everyone knowing how dangerous it is.

Medicine can only do so much to help people stay healthy, ultimate responsibility rests upon the individual. Yet self determination requires behavior modification and while one may be determined they just cannot modify.

In the past 20 years great strides have been made in the 'soft sciences' of psychology and social science looking for insight into the human thinking process and how innate ability and environmental exposure affects it. This book adeptly looks into this research and provides a broad basic report on the current state of behavioral theory.

In short, the text reports the current nexus between science and philosophy and provides edification regarding best current understanding science has.

High point includes interesting discussion regarding relationship between Health Disparities and behavior.