Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Sciences Theories, Methods, and Applications

摘要: Both unintentional and intentional injury are issues of great concern in public health, and continue to be the leading cause of death in young people in the United States. Although policy changes (for instance laws requiring the use of seat belts) have made an impact on reducing death due to injury, there still remains much to be done not only in the area of policy but also in changing the behavior of individuals.Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Sciences Theories, Methods and Applications provides information that will be useful both in the classroom and in the field. The book is very complete in its coverage of the most commonly used behavioral change theories, using injury and violence prevention examples, as well as community-level change theories and the ecological model. Two planning models, the PRECEDE–PROCEED model and the