Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

I. Introduction

Behavioral Science, Social Science, and Public Health in the 21st Century

Neil Schneiderman

Marjorie A. Speers

II. Applying Behavioral and Social Science Approaches to Selected Public Health Problems

Creating Social and Public Health Environments to Sustain Behavior Change: Lessons From Obesity Research

Margaret A. Chesney

Rebecca C. Thurston

Katrina A. Thomas

Socioeconomic Factors in the Behavioral and Psychosocial Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease

John Lynch

Community Intervention in Cardiovascular Health Promotion: North Karelia, 1972-1999

Pekka Puska

Antti Uutela

Exposure to Urban Violence: Shifting From an Individual to an Ecological Perspective

Raymond P. Lorion

Action Research: Informing Interventions in Male Violence Against Women

Sarah L. Cook

Mary P. Koss

Strategies for Preventing HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users: Taking Interventions to the People

Don C. Des Jarlais

Samuel R. Friedman

Community Involvement in HIV/AIDS Prevention

Seth C. Kalichman

Anton Somlai

Kathleen Sikkema

Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Breast Cancer Screening

Barbara K. Rimer

Helen Meissner

Nancy Breen

Julie Legler

Cathy A. Coyne

Integrating Perspectives on the Prevention of Unintentional Injuries

Andrea Carlson Gielen

Deborah C. Girasek

III. Conceptual and Methodological Considerations in the Integration of Behavioral and Social Science With Public Health

Community Mobilization for Prevention and Health Promotion Can Work

Abraham Wandersman

Assessing the Economic Costs and Benefits of Behavioral Interventions

David R. Holtgrave

Steven D. Pinkerton

Toward a Psychoscially Healthy Work Environment: Broader Roles for Psychologists and Sociologists

Robert Karasek

Evaluation of Community-Based Health Programs: An Alternate Perspective

Robert M. Goodman

Efficacy and Effectiveness Trials in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Design and Analysis of Group-Randomized Trials

David M. Murray

Empowerment Evaluation and Self-Determination: A Practical Approach Toward Program Improvement and Capacity Building

David Fetterman

Public Health and Religion

Diane M. Becker

Author Index

Subject Index

About the Editors