Current Literature Related to Health Education [microform] / Lawrence W. Green, Ed

Documents in this bibliography are grouped into fifteen categories under four broad headings. The first heading, health problems, contains documents which cover several aspects of a given type or class of health problems. The categories listed under this heading are: chronic disorders; acute episodes; mental and personality disorders; pregnancy, childbearing and the puerperium; and environmental health. Preventive health practices, illness behavior and utilization, and compliance with therapeutic regimens are the categories which are included in the second heading, behavioral problems. This heading contains documents which either focus on a specific behavioral aspect of the health problem, or in which the type of behavior influences more than one type of health problem. Documents dealing with a specific factor influencing the behavioral problem, or a type of factor influencing more than one behavioral or health problem, are listed under the third heading, factors influencing behavior. This heading includes predisposing factors, enabling factors, and reinforcing factors. The fourth heading is educational and developmental methods and strategies, and is used for documents which focus on planning, description or evaluation of specific methods, media, materials, techniques, organizational designs, etc. The categories listed under this heading are: communications theory and practice, community organization, staff development and administration, and research and evaluation methods. (PB)