Includes index. Glanz, K., Rimer, B. K., & Viswanath, K. (Eds.). (2015). Health behavior: Theory, research, and practice (5th ed.). San Francisco, CA: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Part 1: Health behavior: the foundations -- Chapter 1: The scope of health behavior -- Chapter 2: Theory, research, and practice in health behavior -- Chapter 3: Ecological models of health behavior -- Part 2: Models of individual health behavior -- Chapter 4: Introduction to health behavior theories that focus on individuals -- Chapter 5: The health belief model -- Chapter 6: Theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, and the integrated behavioral model -- Chapter 7: The transtheoretical model and stages of change -- Part 3: Models on interpersonal health behavior -- Chapter 8: Introduction to models on interpersonal influences on health behavior -- Chapter 9: How individuals, environments, and health behaviors interact -- Chapter 10: Social support and health -- Chapter 11: Social networks and health behavior -- Chapter 12: Stress, coping, and health behavior -- Chapter 13: Interpersonal communication in health and illness -- Part 4: Community and group models of health behavior change -- Chapter 14: Introduction to community and group models of health behavior change -- Chapter 15: Improving health through community engagement, community organization, and community building -- Chapter 16: Implementation, dissemination, and diffusion of public health interventions -- Chapter 17: Communication and health behavior in a changing media environment -- Part 5: Using theory in research and practice -- Chapter 18: Introduction to using theory in research and practice -- Chapter 19: Planning models for theory-based health promotion interventions -- Chapter 20: Behavioral economics and health -- Chapter 21: Social marketing

Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice, Fifth Edition, is a thorough introduction to the practice of health education and health promotion, covering the theories, applications, and research of most use to public health students and practitioners. Through four editions, with more than 100,000 copies sold, this book has become the gold-standard textbook for health behavior courses. This essential resource includes the most current information on theory, research, and practice at individual, interpersonal, and community and group levels, with substantial new content on current and emerging theories of health communication, social marketing and e-health, culturally diverse communities, health promotion, the impact of stress, the importance of networks and community, social marketing, and evaluation. New contents include an update to the selection of theories, both established and emerging; e-health and social media as integrated into health communication; global health as an application of health behavior theory; culture and health disparities; more guidance on how to select suitable theories for specific problems/issues. In addition to a selection of basic ancillary materials, the editors offer a dedicated website with student-written "theory in action" examples; expanded bibliographies; exemplar measures of theoretical constructs; and relevant links"-- Provided by publisher.