This article examines health promotion and disease prevention from the perspective of social cognitive theory. This theory posits a multifaceted causal structure in which self-efficacy beliefs operate together with goals, outcome expectations, and perceived environmental impediments and facilitators in the regulation of human motivation, behavior, and well-being. Belief in one's efficacy to exercise control is…
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Health Education & Behavior is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Health Policy Implementation Science, Community Health and Development. Over its lifetime it has published 2,581 papers, which have received 117,958 citations.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Health Education & Behavior, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Health Policy Implementation Science Community Health and Development Behavioral Health and Interventions Public Health Policies and Education |
| ISSN | 1090-1981 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 2.01 |
| h-index | 136 |
| i10-index | 1,549 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Michigan |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com |
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Photovoice is a process by which people can identify, represent, and enhance their community through a specific photographic technique. As a practice based in the production of knowledge, photovoice has three main goals: (1) to enable people to record and reflect their community's strengths and concerns, (2) to promote critical dialogue and knowledge about important…
The volume and quality of research on what we term the religion-health connection have increased markedly in recent years. This interest in the complex relationships between religion and mental and physical health is being fueled by energetic and innovative research programs in several fields, including sociology, psychology, health behavior and health education, psychiatry, gerontology, and…
Social ecological models that describe the interactive characteristics of individuals and environments that underlie health outcomes have long been recommended to guide public health practice. The extent to which such recommendations have been applied in health promotion interventions, however, is unclear. The authors developed a coding system to identify the ecological levels that health promotion…
It is a truism of health education that programs and interventions will be more effective when they are culturally appropriate for the populations they serve. In practice, however, the strategies used to achieve cultural appropriateness vary widely. This article briefly describes five strategies commonly used to target programs to culturally defined groups. It then explains…