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Focus of the Independent Study

Health risk behaviour

  • Define health behaviour
  • Define health promotion
  • Unhealthy diet
  • Smoking
  • Unprotected sexual behaviour

Health enhancing behaviour

  • Healthy diet
  • Exercise
  • Health-screening behaviour
  • Immunisation behaviour

 

Predicting health behaviour

  • Models of health behaviour
  • Social cognitive models of behaviour change
  • Health belief model the yale model of communication
  • Social cognition model behavioural change ( strengths and weakness)

 

Resources for the Independent Study

 

Banyard, P. (2002) Psychology in Practice: Health. London: Hodder Stoughton

 

Morrison, V. & Bennett, P. (2006) An Introduction to Health Psychology. Harlow: Pearson Education

 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XtaNAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

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