Handbook of Health Behavior Research II

Volume 2 discusses the relationship between patient and caregiver in terms of structural and interactional determinants. The impact of provider characteristics on "compliance" and "adherence" is given especially noteworthy treatment. Each volume features extensive supplementary and integrative material prepared by the editor, the detailed index to the entire four-volume set, and a glossary of health behavior terminology.

Inhalt
I. Overview.- 1. Health Behaviors and Care Decisions: An Overview of Professional-Patient Communication.- II. Interactional and Structural Determinants.- 2. Professionals' Characteristics and Health Behavior.- 3. Physician Power and Patients' Health Behavior.- 4. Professional Roles and Health Behavior.- 5. Locational Attributes of Health Behavior.- III. Adherence to and Acceptance of Regimens.- 6. The History and Meaning of Patient Compliance as an Ideology.- 7. Adherence to Asthma Regimens.- 8. Self-Regulation and Heart Disease.- 9. Self-Management of Childhood Diabetes in Family Context.- 10. Acceptance of Diabetes Regimens in Adults.- 11. Epilepsy Self-Management.- 12. Determinants of Regimen Adherence in Renal Dialysis.- 13. Adherence to Mammography and Breast Self-Examination Regimens.- 14. Compliance with Antituberculosis Regimens and the Role of Behavioral Interventions.- 15. Acceptance of Cancer Screening.- 16. Adherence to Dental Regimens.- 17. Adherence to Weight Loss and Nutritional Regimens.- 18. Initiation and Maintenance of Exercise Behavior.- 19. Adherence to Smoking Cessation Regimens.- 20. Accepting Occupational Safety and Health Regimens.- IV. Integration.- 21. Provider Determinants of Health Behavior: An Integration.- Concepts and Definitions: A Glossary for Health Behavior Research.- of Volumes IIV.- Index to Volumes IIV.