This landmark treatise provides the first comprehensive review of basic health behavior research. In four volumes, multidisciplinary contributors critically assess every aspect of health behavior, giving special attention to the interrelationship between personal/social systems and risk behavior. Volume 1 presents useful conceptions of health and health behavior and describes the influence of personal, family, social and institutional factors. 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.Conceptions of Health Behavior. Health Behavior: Definitions and Diversity; D.S. Gochman. Historical and Cultural Foundations of Health Behavior: A Comparative Approach; H. Fabrega.ersonal Determinants. Cognitive Representation of Health and Illness; R.R. Lau. The Health Belief Model and Health Behavior; V.J. Strecher, et al. Beliefs About Control and Health Behavior; J.W. Reich, et al. Protection Motivation Theory; R. Rogers, S. Prentice-Dunn.. Family Determinants. Family Determinants of Health Actions; T. Baranowski. Family Health Cognitions; D.S. Gochman. Maternal Influences on children?s Health Behavior; B.J. Tinsley.Social Determinants. Lifestyles, Social Class, Demographic Characteristics, and Health Behavior; W.C.Cockerham. Social Attachments, Group Structures and Health Behavior; R. Geertsen. Sick-Role Concepts and Health Behavior; A. Segall.Institutional and Cultural Determinants. Work-Related ló–