Main description:

This textbook takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology. It examines five systems that affect individual health outcomes: individual, family/community, social/physical environment, healthcare systems, and health policy. While grounded in psychology, it incorporates perspectives from anthropology, biology, economics, environmental studies, medicine, public health, and sociology. The social ecological perspective on health psychology creates a depth of understanding of the diverse facets of health. This text also examines health from a global perspective by exploring the impact of infectious and chronic illnesses locally, regionally and globally.

This new edition includes updated statistics and references throughout, a new chapter on psychoneuroimmunology, and significant changes and updates to the chapters on health care systems and risky health behaviors. It will be of particular interest to undergraduate students.

For additional resources, consult http://routledge.com/9781138201309, where instructors will find downloadable lecture slides, instructor manual, and testbank.

Contents:

1. An Interdisciplinary View of Health 2. Research Methods 3. Global Communicable and Chronic Disease 4. Theories and Models of Health Behavior Change 5. Risky Health Behaviors 6. Emotional Health and Well-Being 7. Stress and Coping 8. Psychoneuroimmunology 9. Cardiovascular Disease 10. Chronic Pain Management and Arthritis 11. Cancer 12. Health Care Systems and Health Policy: Effects on Health Outcomes 13. The Health Psychologist's Role: Research, Application, and Advocacy