Psychosocial processes and health : a reader [E-Book] / compiled and edited by Andrew Steptoe, Jane Wardle.
Psychosocial processes and health : a reader [E-Book] / compiled and edited by Andrew Steptoe, Jane Wardle.
Understanding the links between the social environment, emotion, behaviour and illness is a growing theme in medical and health education. The development of the field is reflected in the growth of disciplines such as health psychology, psychosocial epidemiology, and behavioural medicine. The basic...
| Personal Name(s): | Steptoe, Andrew, (editor) |
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| Wardle, Jane, (editor) | |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1994
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 525 pages) |
| Note: |
englisch |
| ISBN: |
9780511759048 9780521426183 9780521416108 |
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Full Text |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Life stress, social support and health
- 2. Psychophysiological processes in disease
- 3. Personality, behaviour patterns and health
- 4. Health practices and the modification of health risk behavour
- 5. Coping with illness and disability
- 6. Behavioural interventions in medicine.