The health effects of psychosocial factors are a widely discussed and controversial topic. Do positive and negative emotions affect our risk of developing physical disease? Are depressive individuals more likely to have cancer than those with an optimistic outlook on life? And what is the role of IQ in staying healthy and recovering from disease? Importantly, can we improve our health and life expectancy by avoiding certain psychosocial risk factors and maximizing positive psychological well-being? These and other questions are the focus of psychosocial epidemiology, a discipline linking psychological, social and biological sciences.

The Routledge International Handbook of Psychosocial Epidemiology is the first book to map this growing discipline. Including contributions from many of the leading researchers in the field, it is divided into five sections:

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Personen: Kawachi, Ichiro Kivimäki, Mika Batty, David G. Steptoe, Andrew

Standort: RÜD

Schlagwörter: Gesundheit Risikofaktor Soziales Netzwerk Psychosoziale Belastung Intervention Epidemiologie Psychosoziale Situation