Health Behavior Change in Populations

Scott Kahan, MD, MPH, is director of the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance at George Washington University and the National Center for Weight and Wellness. He is an instructor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a clinical professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine and the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Andrea C. Gielen, ScD, ScM, is a professor of health, behavior, and society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. Peter J. Fagan, PhD, is an associate professor of medical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Lawrence W. Green, DrPH, is a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, and a faculty associate of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

• Foreword by William H. Dietz1. Introduction2. Conceptual Framework for Behavior Change3. Evidence and Ecological Theory in Two Public Health Successes for Health Behavior Change4. Extending the Ecological Model: Key Stakeholders and Organizational Partnerships5. Program Planning for Behavior Change Interventions6. Behavior Change at the Intrapersonal Level7. Behavior Change at the Interpersonal Level: Social Networks8. Behavior Change at the Environmental Level9. Evaluating Behavior Change Programs10. Tobacco and Behavior Change11. Alcohol and Behavior Change12. Substance Abuse and Behavior Change13. Obesity and Eating Behaviors and Behavior Change14. Physical Activity and Behavior Change15. Unintentional Injury and Behavior Change16. Workplace Injury and Behavior Change17. Violence and Behavior Change18. Sexual Risk and Behavior Change19. Clinicians and Behavior Change20. Behavioral Economics and Incentives to Promote Health Behavior Change21. Complexity, Systems Thinking, and Health Behavior Change22. Patient and Consumer Activation for Health Behavior Change23. Empowering Patient Communication24. Health Risk Assessment25. Chronic Conditions and Population HealthManagement for Health Care Systems26. Health Behavior Change in Persons withDepressive Disorders

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