Health Behaviour And Health Promotion In A Public Health Psychology: Theoretical Issues And Empirical Findings

by Lengerke, Thomas Von

• ISBN13: 9783631374641
• ISBN10: 363137464X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: PETER LANG PUBLISHING

Table of Contents

List of Tables	9	(3)
List of Figures	12	(1)
Abstract / Kurzzusammenfassung	13	(2)
Introduction	15	(6)
Health behaviour	21	(14)
Theories of health behaviour and its modification in health psychology	22	(6)
Policy and environmental approaches to modifying health behaviour	28	(2)
Implications for a public health psychology: Contextual factors for behaviour	30	(5)
Health promotion	35	(18)
Psychology and health promotion: Contemporary accounts	36	(3)
Citizen participation and healthy policy: Foci of health promotion	39	(3)
Implications for a public health psychology: Multilevel health promotion action	42	(11)
Implications for evaluation research	53	(10)
Evaluation practices in the promotion of health behaviour and health	54	(1)
Policy rationality and impact, co-production of health, and policy perception	55	(5)
Implications for a public health psychology: On policy and population levels	60	(3)
Research questions	63	(18)
Health behaviour	66	(5)
Motivational support: Which role do policy-related actors play?	66	(3)
Instrumental support: Do policy-inducible opportunities matter?	69	(2)
Health promotion	71	(6)
Participation: An extended multilevel health promotion model?	71	(3)
Health promotion policy: Specific determinants of policy impact?	74	(3)
Policy evaluation	77	(4)
Rationality and impact: Parallel policy and population views?	77	(1)
Policies as units of observations: A rationale for policy evaluation?	78	(3)
Methods and data	81	(24)
Policymaker survey	81	(11)
Survey method	82	(1)
Questionnaire development and overview	82	(2)
Sampling and realisation	84	(4)
Sample description	88	(2)
Operationalisation and measures	90	(2)
Population survey	92	(13)
Survey method	92	(1)
Interview schedule development and overview	93	(1)
Sampling and realisation	94	(4)
Sample description	98	(1)
Operationalisation and measures	98	(7)
Results	105	(72)
Health behaviour	105	(34)
Motivational support: Contrasting actors and their contributions	111	(19)
Instrumental support: Contrasting contributions of opportunities	130	(6)
Contrasting motivational and instrumental support's contributions	136	(3)
Health promotion	139	(24)
Determinants of participation: Values, competence-and support	139	(9)
Participation and health: Behavioural patterns and political efficacy	148	(10)
Health promotion policies: Contrasting determinants of their impact	158	(5)
Policy evaluation	163	(14)
Parallel policymaker and population views I: Behaviour modification	163	(4)
Parallel policymaker and population views II: Perception of outcome	167	(3)
Policies as units of observations: Associations of behaviour prevalences	170	(7)
Discussion	177	(18)
Contextual factors and policy support for health behaviours	180	(3)
Multilevel health promotion action, health, and policy impact	183	(5)
Intervention rationality, policy perception, and national policies	188	(7)
Conclusions	195	(6)
Epilogue	201	(2)
References	203	(30)
Appendix: Additional tables	233