Health Education Research Advance Access originally published online on November 16, 2006
Health Education Research 2007 22(1):153; doi:10.1093/her/cyl151
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Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Sciences Theories, Methods, and Applications
Andrea C. Gielen, David A. Sleet and Ralph J. DiClementeJossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 2006
534 pp. ISBN 978-0-7879-7764-1
Associate Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health at El Paso, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston
Both unintentional and intentional injury are issues of great concern in public health, and continue to be the leading cause of death in young people in the United States. Although policy changes (for instance laws requiring the use of seat belts) have made an impact on reducing death due to injury, there still remains much to be done not only in the area of policy but also in changing the behavior of individuals.
Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Sciences Theories, Methods and Applications provides information that will be useful both in the classroom and in the field. The book is very complete in its coverage of the most commonly used behavioral change theories, using injury and violence prevention examples, as well as community-level change theories and the ecological model. Two planning models, the PRECEDE–PROCEED model and the Haddon Matrix are also well described. Other chapters cover research and assessment methods and examples of behavior change interventions in the field. The section on cross-cutting issues is especially helpful in ‘bringing together’ all levels of the ecological model.
This book would be an excellent resource for classroom teaching. The authors have provided thought-provoking examples of ‘real-life’ interventions. The book would be useful not only in a topical class on the issue of injury and violence but also in classes focused on behavior change theories and theory-based intervention development. I found new and innovative examples of interventions that I will use in classroom teaching.
I would recommend this book to public health professionals and to teachers working with students of public health, health education, nursing and medicine. The clarity of the writing and the excellent examples make this book appropriate for both graduate- and undergraduate-level students.
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