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Relevance of Health Behavior Research to Health Promotion and Health Education

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Many professionals who work in health promotion and health education would agree that health behavior research is a core foundation for both research and practice. In fact, it has been suggested that “the central concern of health education is health behavior” (Glanz, Lewis, & Rimer, 1990, p. 9). If this is so, then the short answer to the question of whether health behavior research is relevant to health promotion and health education is simple: It is highly relevant, pervasive, and almost always woven into work in the field. This short answer, however, does not convey a complex story very well. Health promotion and health education are eclectic, rapidly evolving, and reflect a conglomeration of approaches, methods, and strategies from social and health sciences.

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    Karen Glanz

  2. School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia

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Glanz, K., Oldenburg, B. (1997). Relevance of Health Behavior Research to Health Promotion and Health Education. In: Gochman, D.S. (eds) Handbook of Health Behavior Research IV. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0484-3_8

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