Health is regarded as the result of an interaction between individual and environmental
factors. While health education is the process of educating people about health and how …

Interventions to promote health that have been developed over the last 20 years in the
relatively new scientific health education tradition, have often been evaluated for their …

One commonly used definition of public health is “the science and art of protecting and
improving community health through health education, promotion, research, and disease …

′ In short, Lloyd and Lucas′ approach is challenging in its emphasis on a′ positive′
and holistic orientation to health and always humane in its emphasis on quality of life and, in …

This book is informative and insightful, and for those interested in the study of human
behavior, is a lot of fun to read. There are good descriptions and multiple, real-world …

Health education has been around since people discoveredthat knowing more about health
could make individuals healthier, and its purpose has been and is to promote healthier …

Introduction. Although there is general agreement about the complex interplay among
individual-, family-, organizational-, and community-level factors as they influence health …

T he chapters in this book provide a glimpse into the future of health promotion and disease
prevention. Increasingly, theories in health promotion practice acknowledge the complex …

Health Promotion Practice (Lancaster & Roe, 2000) began with an update of the national
progress made to close four major gaps between research and practice: the …

People initiative with the Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention (US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1979), the decade saw …