Motivating Health Behavior

Rating:
Summary: Still a relavent Health Promotion introductory text
Review: I first purchased this text for an introductory Health Promotion course (PH 603) at SDSU. Though the statistics and figures are dated (originally published 1994), I found this text both relavent and easy to read.

Pros: Well organized, gives lots of examples which apply the concepts, and covers all the main areas of health promotion in a general but meaningful way.

Cons: Statistics such as "Health People 2000" are very dated and not useful. End of chapter exercises are not very practical for the average public health student for self-review.

Helpful Hint: This text lacks end of chapter review questions so I suggest using the objectives at the beginning of the chapter as quasi-questions for review.