This chapter defines health behaviors as any activity undertaken for the purpose of
preventing or detecting disease or for improving health and well being. Common ways of …

Two of the central issues in health psychology are understanding the determinants of health
behaviour, and improving methods of promoting behaviour change and healthier lifestyles …

A considerable body of research has examined the role of social cognitive factors in
predicting health behaviour (see Conner and Norman 1995; Norman et al. 2000). This …

The term health behaviour (or health-related behaviour) is used very broadly in this chapter
to mean any behaviour that may affect an individual's physical health or any behaviour that …

Reviews the literature on health psychology, using an approach that emphasizes process
models and interactions among variables. The following variables appear to correlate most …

Risk communication and resource communication are two basic approaches to motivate
health behavior change. Risk information, as provided in the media, is more complex than it …

An important role of applied social science in health has been the promulgation of theory
designed to account for health behaviors of individuals and groups. Efforts to model various …

Theoretical models popular in the health domain differ in level of generality. Some were
developed to deal with any human social behavior and then applied to health psychology …

Proposes a modified view of GL Engel's classic biopsychosocial model of health status,
which posits that biological, psychological, and social factors interact to cause disease of …

Abstract examines the concept of health behaviour and briefly reviews epidemiological work
looking at the variation in who performs such behaviours/outlines the general social …