| Health Education & Behavior | |
|---|---|
| Former name(s) | Health Education Quarterly |
| Abbreviated title (ISO) | Health Educ. Behav. |
| Discipline | Public health, education |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | John P. Allegrante |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (United States) |
| Publication history | 1973-present |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Impact factor (2010) |
1.742 |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1090-1981 (print) 1552-6127 (web) |
| LCCN | sn96-2571 |
| CODEN | HEDBFS |
| OCLC number | 35233880 |
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Health Education & Behavior is a peer-reviewed healthcare journal published by SAGE. It publishes original peer-reviewed articles that examine social and behavioral change as they affect health status and quality of life. It also examines the processes of planning, implementing, managing, and assessing health education and social-behavioral interventions. Article types include empirical research, case studies, program evaluations, literature reviews, theories of health behavior and status, and strategies to improve social and behavioral health. It is an official publication of the Society for Public Health Education. Regular journal features include Perspectives, which discusses complex issues, and Practice Notes, which provides overviews of innovative health education programs.
The journal is abstracted and indexed by CAB Abstracts, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Global Health, Index Medicus, ProQuest, Psychological Abstracts, PsycINFO, PsycLIT, SafetyLit, Scopus, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Sociological Abstracts.[1] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2009 impact factor is 2.194, ranking it 18th out of 95 journals in the category "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health".