Gurung, Regan A. R

Health psychology : a cultural approach / Regan A.R. Gurung - 2nd ed. - Belmont : Wadsworth, c2010 - xxvi, 518 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographic references and indexes

1. Health psychology: setting the stage. 2. Cultural approaches to health. 3. Essential physiology. 4. Stress across cultures. 5. Coping and social support. 6. Models of behavior change. 7. Health behaviors: eating, physical activity, smoking, and drinking. 8. Factors surrounding illness. 9. Pain. 10. Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and death. 11. Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV. 12. Culture and cancer. 13. Culture and cardiovascular disease. 14. The future of health psychology.

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Clinical health psychology
Transcultural medical care

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