Introduction to Health Behavioral Sciences

Instructor: Chih-Yin Lew-Ting

Contents:
Social and behavioral sciences and health behavior
Part I Disciplinary, basic concepts and extended concepts
Social structure
Social networks
Culture and belief system
Cognition and psychological process
Gene, evolution and social behavior
Socialization, education and communication
Part II Health care system
Health care system: structure and culture
Patient-physician encounter: change in relationship, medical error and dispute
Health seeking process and the consumption of medical care resources
Part III Behavior with public health implications
Dietary behavior and the consumption of pharmaceutics
Sexual behavior
sociocultural and behavioral responses to contagious agents
Addictive behavior
Pro-environmental behavior

Textbooks:
1. Johnson AG. The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise. Temple University Press, 1997. (Translated by 成令方、林鶴玲、吳嘉苓：見樹又見林。台北：群學。2001)
2. 王銘銘：人類學是甚麼。台北：揚智。2003。(http://www.ycrc.com.tw)
3. Gochman DS. (ed). Handbook of Health Behavior Research. New York: Plenum, 1997.
4. Wilson EO. On human Nature. Harvard University Press. 1978. (Translated by 宋文里：人類本性原論。台北：桂冠。1992。)