Health Psychology in Global Perspective

What do we know about health in other countries? How can we use explanations from health psychology to understand health issues around the world? This volume uses health psychology to compare health issues faced by people in developing and developed countries.Taking a broad social science perspective, Frances E Aboud brings mainstream health psychology concepts to bear on the problems of international health. She also: integrates findings from psychology with literature from other disciplines such as epidemiology, education, anthropology and nursing; and brings cross-cultural issues to bear on concepts and theories in health psychology. International health statistics and social science research methods applied to health i

• | Author: Frances E. Aboud
• | Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• | Publication Date: Mar 09, 1998
• | Number of Pages: 344 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0761909419
• | ISBN-13: 9780761909415