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Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach offers a critical examination of the biopsychosocial model of health and proposes the use of the ecological model as a more comprehensive explanation of health outcomes; both of which are unique approaches in a health psychology text. The ecological model explores the impact of five systems on individual health outcomes: the individual (including physiology), the family/community, physical and social environments, healthcare systems and health policy. Unlike the biopsychological model which represents a combination of three fields-biology, psychology and sociology - the ecological model includes research and findings from medical anthropology, economics, ethnopharmacology, environmental studies, medicine and public health, in addition to biology, psychology and sociology. Thus, it offers a truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of health. Finally, the text uniquely examines infectious diseases and chronic illnesses from a local, regional and global perspective. The diverse perspectives illustrate the roles of each of the five systems on health.

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Book category Books in English Medicine Medicine: general issues Public health & preventive medicine

• Full title: Health Psychology
• Author: Deborah Ragin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 528
• EAN: 9780132568579
• ISBN: 0132568578
• ID: 04353597
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 453 g
• Date of publishing: 22. October 2010

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