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This fourth edition retains the highly praised approach of previous editions, with each chapter providing an overview of the theory and research before moving on to explore applications and intervention practice. The primary goals of health psychologists are to describe, predict and then to intervene and this book continues to reflect that process.

Introduction to Health Psychology

• Title Page


• Copyright Page


• Contents


• Preface


• Publisher?s acknowledgements


• PART I BEING AND STAYING HEALTHY


• Chapter 1 What is health?


• Learning outcomes


• Chapter outline


• What is health? Changing perspectives


• Individual, cultural and lifespan perspectives on health


• What is health psychology?


• Summary


• Further reading


• Chapter 2 Health inequalities


• Learning outcomes


• Chapter outline


• Health differentials


• Minority status and health


• Gender and health


• Summary


• Further reading


• Chapter 3 Health-risk behaviour


• Learning outcomes


• Chapter outline


• What is health behaviour?


• Smoking, drinking and illicit drug use


• Unprotected sexual behaviour


• Unhealthy diet


• Obesity


• Summary


• Further reading


• Chapter 4 Health-protective behaviour


• Learning outcomes


• Chapter outline


• Adherence behaviour


• Healthy diet


• Exercise


• Health-screening behaviour


• Immunisation behaviour


• Summary


• Further reading


• Chapter 5 Explaining health behaviour


• Learning outcomes


• Chapter outline


• Distal influences on health behaviour


• Models of health behaviour


• Sociocognitive models of behaviour change


• Stage models of behaviour change


• Summary


• Further reading


• Chapter 6 Changing behaviour: mechanisms and approaches


• Learning outcomes


• Chapter outline


• Developing public health interventions