2 Volumes, 968 pages
Purchase Details
Hardback, 0-7619-2360-8
Publication date: 02/2004

a Specialist Reference title

The current level of popular interest in health and behavior reinforces the urgent need for better information so practitioners, academics, and the public can perform research and make lifestyle choices based on sound science. From adherence to a doctors advice, to emotions and health, to obesity treatment and prevention, to womens health and all topics in between, the Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior comprehensively covers all aspects of what has become the dynamic domain of behavioral medicine.

This A-to-Z Encyclopedia includes entries on topics covering all aspects of health and behavior, as well as a comprehensive set of additional resources with both entries on selected organizations (see for example: Health and Behavior Organisations) and an appendix with a detailed annotated listing of such organizations and Web sites of interest (Appendix A). Designed with the overarching goal to collect together in a single resource the knowledge generated by this interdisciplinary field, it highlights the links between science and practice.

Scholars, health care practitioners, and the general public will find a wealth of information on topics such as physical activity and health, stress, smoking, chronic pain management, social support and health, cardiovascular health, health promotion and HIV/AIDS.