Health Behavior and Health Education Quotes

“an exclusive reliance on individually oriented interventions would be inadequate to achieve our pressing population health and health care goals.”
― Karen Glanz, Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice

“A theory is a set of interrelated concepts, definitions, and propositions that present a systematic view of events or situations by specifying relations among variables, in order to explain and predict the events or situations.”
― Karen Glanz, Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice

“Seven major settings are particularly relevant to contemporary health education: schools, communities, worksites, health care settings, homes, the consumer marketplace, and the communications environment.”
― Karen Glanz, Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice

“The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion defines health promotion as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health . . . a commitment to dealing with the challenges of reducing inequities, extending the scope of prevention, and helping people to cope with their circumstances . . . create environments conducive to health, in which people are better able to take care of themselves” (Epp, 1986).”
― Karen Glanz, Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice