Three facets of public health and paths to improvements : behavior, culture, and environment / edited by Beth Ann Fiedler.

Other author Fiedler, Beth Ann.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Academic Press, 2020.
Description1 online resource
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects
Public health.
Public Health

Contents Intro -- Three Facets of Public Health and Paths to Improvements: Behavior, Culture, and Environment -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Section A: Behavioral impact on public health -- Chapter 1: Intersecting global health metrics with personal change -- Focusing global data and risk behaviors on individual patients -- Where business, health care professionals, and social science data can converge -- Associated behaviors, metabolic risks, and your health -- Aggregated global behavior and metabolic risk factors on mortality
Contents United States national chronic disease indicators and mortality -- Local syndromic surveillance in Duval County, Florida, USA -- Discussion -- Recommendations: A place for new data models at the organization and practice level -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Supplementary reading recommendations -- Definitions -- Chapter 2: Don't sit this one out: Moderating the negative health impact of sedentary behavior at work -- Sitting to death -- General overview of applicable behavior change theories -- Research methodology -- Overview of methods -- Search protocol
Contents Findings, raw data, and behavior change implications -- Major goals and targeted behavior change (TBC) related to sedentary inactivity -- Intervention prescriptions (IPs) for sedentary behavior and interpretation -- Behavior change approaches (BCAs) related to sedentary inactivity and interpretation -- Major themes related to sedentary behavior change -- Outcome goal setting -- Environmental adaptation -- Self-monitoring of behavior -- Information on health consequences and social support -- Directions on how to perform behavior(s), and advice or feedback on behavior
Contents Minor, emerging, and outlier themes related to sedentary behavior change -- Social/peer environment change, activity or action planning, and problem solving -- Behavior substitutes through habit formation and routine-making -- Behavior evaluation and rehearsal -- Risks and rewards, cues and prompts, and goal review -- Emerging and outlier themes -- Summation: Application of findings -- Recommendations and tools for change -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Supplementary reading recommendations -- Definitions
Contents Chapter 3: Alcohol-related harm among college students: Past issues and future directions -- College student drinking: Alcohol use and alcohol-related harm -- Risk factors of alcohol-related harm among college students -- Individual level -- Student-body level -- College and community level -- What doesn't work to reduce college student drinking and related problems -- Changes in college student drinking since the ``Call to Action ́́report -- Alternative prevention approaches: Targeting individual risk factors -- Feedback approaches for alternative targets -- Drinking motivation feedback
Abstract "Provides an overview on how specific indicators like environment, culture and behavior play a role in developing improved outcomes for public health in local, regional, national and global health policy and concerns."--Publisher
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formPrint version: 0128190086 9780128190081
ISBN9780128190142 (electronic bk.)
ISBN0128190140 (electronic bk.)

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