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Health psychology : a textbook / Jane Ogden.

By: Ogden, Jane, 1966-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2007Edition: 4th. ed.Description: xxxi, 489 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0335222633; 9780335222636; 9780335222643.Subject(s): Clinical health psychology | Health and Wellbeing | Psychology | Health psychologyDDC classification: 616.0019 OGD Summary: This is an accessible and comprehensive guide to all the major topics of health psychology, including a new chapter on women's health. It is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology and for students of medicine, nursing and allied health courses.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is an accessible and comprehensive guide to all the major topics of health psychology, including a new chapter on women's health. It is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology and for students of medicine, nursing and allied health courses.

Previous ed.: Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This is an accessible and comprehensive guide to all the major topics of health psychology, including a new chapter on women's health. It is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology and for students of medicine, nursing and allied health courses.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Detailed table of contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Preface to the third edition
  • Guided tour Technology to enhance learning and teaching
  • Acknowledgements
  • An introduction to health psychology
  • Health beliefs
  • Illness cognitions
  • Doctorpatient communication and the role of health professionals' health beliefs
  • Smoking and alcohol use
  • Eating behaviour
  • Exercise
  • Sex
  • Screening
  • Stress
  • Stress and illness
  • Pain
  • Placebos and the interrelationship between beliefs, behaviour and health HIV and cancer: psychology throughout the course of illness
  • (1) Obesity and coronary heart disease: psychology throughout the course of illness
  • (2) Women's health issues Measuring health status: from mortality rates to quality of life
  • The assumptions of health psychology
  • Methodology glossary
  • References
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jane Ogden is Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK. Her research interests include eating behaviours, obesity, health communication and women's health.