Author
David F Marks, Michael Murray, Brian Evans and Emee Estacio

Pub Date: Dec 2010  

Pages: 616

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David F Marks, Michael Murray, Brian Evans and Emee Estacio

Table of Contents                

 

Part 1 HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY IN CONTEXT

 

1          Health psychology as a new field of inquiry

2          The macro-social environment and health

3          Social inequalities, social justice and health

4          Culture and health

5          A-Z of research methods in health psychology

 

 

Part 2 HEALTH BEHAVIOUR AND EXPERIENCE

 

6          Theories, models and interventions applied to sexual health

7          Food and eating

8          Alcohol and drinking

9          Tobacco and smoking

10         Exercise and activity

 

Part 3 HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION

 

11         Information and communication 

12         Stress and coping

13         Immunization and screening

14         Health literacy

15         Community and alternative approaches

 

Part 4 ILLNESS EXPERIENCE AND HEALTH CARE

 

16         Lay representations of illness

17         Illness and personality

18         Medicine taking: adherence and resistance

19         Pain

20         Cancer and chronic diseases

 

Glossary

 

Bibliography

 

Name index

 

Subject index