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, PART ONE: HEALTH EDUCATION AND HEALTH BEHAVIOR: THE
FOUNDATIONS
ONE: THE SCOPE OF HEALTH BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH EDUCATION
KEY POINTS
This chapter will
Discuss the importance of developing successful strategies to improve health
behavior.
Summarize the leading causes of death and disease burden in the United States
and globally.
Describe the scope and evolution of health education.
Provide key definitions of health education, health behavior, and health promotion.
Discuss the diverse settings and audiences for health education.
Highlight progress and challenges in health behavior and health education
research.
CHAPTER SUMMARY
This chapter discusses the dynamic nature of health education and health behavior
today in the context of changing patterns of disease and trends in health care, health
education, and disease prevention in the United States and globally. It provides
definitions of health education, health promotion, and health behavior and describes the
broad and diverse parameters of this maturing field. Health behavior research has
experienced great progress, but mixed findings raise new questions and pose
methodological, theoretical, and substantive challenges. The interrelationships and
importance of theory, research, and practice are set against a backdrop of the important,
growing, and complex challenges in health education and health behavior.
KEY TERMS
Health education
Health behavior
Health promotion
Ecological perspective
Multiple levels of influence
Reciprocal causation
Preventive health behavior
Illness behavior
Sick-role behavior
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