Social Marketing

• Actions that can be classified as health behaviors include smoking, substance use, diet, physical activity, sleep, risky sexual activities, health care seeking behaviors, and adherence to prescribed medical treatments (Source: Short & Mollborn, 2016) 
• Get familiar with the Social Determinants of Health by Healthy People 2030
• CDC is a great resource for health communication. 
• For systematic reviews or meta-analyses, select the recent publications

Best Bets:

• CINAHL Plus with Full Text…Nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare.
• Medline Plus ...From the National Library of Medicine. Consumer health information. 
• PubMed
• APA PsycINFO
• Google Scholar

Search Tip:

• Use “behavioral change” as a search term 
• Identify and use similar terms. E.g., when you look for research on vaping, use "electronic cigarettes", e-cigarettes, e-cigs, Juul, etc.
• At Google Scholar, try the Related Articles or Cited By feature to locate similar studies 

• American Association for Health Education (AAHE) 
• American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) 
• American Public Health Association (APHA) Health Communication Working Group (HCWG) 
• Health and Science Communications Association (HeSCA) 
• Health Communication Division of the National Communication Association (NCA) 
• Health Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) 

• Journal of Social Marketing
• American Journal of Preventive Medicine 
• American Journal of Public Health 
• Annual Review of Public Health 
• Communication Research 
• Health Communication 
• Health Education & Behavior: The Official Publication of the Society for Public Health Education 
• Journal of Health Communication