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Author : Benjamin H. Gottlieb
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1981-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016164900
Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Panel on Understanding Divergent Trends in Longevity in High-Income Countries
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309217101
During the last 25 years, life expectancy at age 50 in the United States has been rising, but at a slower pace than in many other high-income countries, such as Japan and Australia. This difference is particularly notable given that the United States spends more on health care than any other nation. Concerned about this divergence, the National Institute on Aging asked the National Research Council to examine evidence on its possible causes. According to Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries, the nation's history of heavy smoking is a major reason why lifespans in the United States fall short of those in many other high-income nations. Evidence suggests that current obesity levels play a substantial part as well. The book reports that lack of universal access to health care in the U.S. also has increased mortality and reduced life expectancy, though this is a less significant factor for those over age 65 because of Medicare access. For the main causes of death at older ages -- cancer and cardiovascular disease -- available indicators do not suggest that the U.S. health care system is failing to prevent deaths that would be averted elsewhere. In fact, cancer detection and survival appear to be better in the U.S. than in most other high-income nations, and survival rates following a heart attack also are favorable. Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries identifies many gaps in research. For instance, while lung cancer deaths are a reliable marker of the damage from smoking, no clear-cut marker exists for obesity, physical inactivity, social integration, or other risks considered in this book. Moreover, evaluation of these risk factors is based on observational studies, which -- unlike randomized controlled trials -- are subject to many biases.
Author : Frank Nestmann,Klaus Hurrelmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110866377
Social Networks and Social Support in Childhood and Adolescence (Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence).
Author : Antonina Bambina
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computer network resources
ISBN : 9781621968597
Author : Sheldon Cohen,Sherman Leonard Syme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015016227368
Author : Tracey A. Revenson,Regan A. R. Gurung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351683265
This rich resource provides a thorough overview of current knowledge and new directions in the study of the biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors that affect health, health behavior, and illness. Chapters review the latest theories and research with an emphasis on how research is translated into behavioral medicine interventions. Featuring contributions from top researchers and rising stars in the field, authors provide a theoretical foundation; evaluate the empirical evidence; and make suggestions for future research, clinical practice, and policy. The handbook reflects the latest approaches to health psychology today, including: Emphasis throughout on the socio-cultural aspects of health, including socioeconomic status, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age/developmental stage A new section on emerging areas in health psychology, including behavioral genomics, military veterans' health, and digital health Coverage of prevention, interventions, and treatment in the applications section An expansion of the biopsychosocial model across several levels of analysis, including cultural, macro-social, and cellular factors Sustained emphasis on translating research into practice and policy The handbook considers the intersections of concepts (behavior change), populations (women's and sexual minority health), cultural groups (African American, Asian American, and Latino), risk and protective factors (obesity, coping), and diseases (cancer, diabetes, HIV), making it essential reading for scholars of health psychology, public health, epidemiology, and nursing. Novices to the field appreciate the accessibly written chapters, while seasoned professionals appreciate the book's deep, cutting-edge coverage.
Author : Gregory R. Pierce,I.G. Sarason
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781489913883
While insights sometimes are slow in coming, they often seem obvious when they finally arrive. This handbook is an outcome of the insight that the topics of social support and the family are very closely linked. Obvious as this might seem, the fact remains that the literatures dealing with social support and the family have been deceptively separate and distinct. For example, work on social support began in the 1970s with the accumulation of evidence that social ties and social integration play important roles in health and personal adjustment. Even though family members are often the key social supporters of individuals, relatively little re search of social support was targeted on family interactions as a path to specifying supporter processes. It is now recognized that one of the most important features of the family is its role in providing the individual with a source of support and acceptance. Fortunately, in recen t years, the distinctness and separateness of the fields of social support and the family have blurred. This handbook provides the first collation and integration of social support and family research. This integration calls for specifying processes (such as the cognitions associated with poor support availability and unrewarding faIllily constellations) and factors (such as cultural differences in family life and support provision) that are pertinent to integration.
Author : Gørill Haugan,Monica Eriksson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030631352
This open access textbook represents a vital contribution to global health education, offering insights into health promotion as part of patient care for bachelor’s and master’s students in health care (nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, radiotherapists, social care workers etc.) as well as health care professionals, and providing an overview of the field of health science and health promotion for PhD students and researchers. Written by leading experts from seven countries in Europe, America, Africa and Asia, it first discusses the theory of health promotion and vital concepts. It then presents updated evidence-based health promotion approaches in different populations (people with chronic diseases, cancer, heart failure, dementia, mental disorders, long-term ICU patients, elderly individuals, families with newborn babies, palliative care patients) and examines different health promotion approaches integrated into primary care services. This edited scientific anthology provides much-needed knowledge, translating research into guidelines for practice. Today’s medical approaches are highly developed; however, patients are human beings with a wholeness of body-mind-spirit. As such, providing high-quality and effective health care requires a holistic physical-psychological-social-spiritual model of health care is required. A great number of patients, both in hospitals and in primary health care, suffer from the lack of a holistic oriented health approach: Their condition is treated, but they feel scared, helpless and lonely. Health promotion focuses on improving people’s health in spite of illnesses. Accordingly, health care that supports/promotes patients’ health by identifying their health resources will result in better patient outcomes: shorter hospital stays, less re-hospitalization, being better able to cope at home and improved well-being, which in turn lead to lower health-care costs. This scientific anthology is the first of its kind, in that it connects health promotion with the salutogenic theory of health throughout the chapters. the authors here expand the understanding of health promotion beyond health protection and disease prevention. The book focuses on describing and explaining salutogenesis as an umbrella concept, not only as the key concept of sense of coherence.
Author : Benjamin H. Gottlieb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Community mental health services
ISBN : 0608014761
Author : I.G. Sarason
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789400951150
"No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor." Traditional Danish Proverb This bit of Danish folk wisdom expresses an idea underlying much of the current thinking about social support. While the clinical literature has for a long time recognized the deleterious effects of unwholesome social relationships, only more recently has the focus broadened to include the positive side of social interaction, those interpersonal ties that are desired, rewarding, and protective. This book contains theoretical and research contributions by a group of scholars who are charting this side of the social spectrum. Evidence is increasing that maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving occur disproportionately among people with few social supports. Rather than sapping self-reliance, strong ties with others particularly family members seem to encourage it. Reliance on others and self-reliance are not only compatible but complementary to one another. While the mechanism by which an intimate relationship is protective has yet to be worked out, the following factors seem to be involved: intimacy, social integration through shared concerns, reassurance of worth, the opportunity to be nurtured by others, a sense of reliable alliance, and guidance. The major advance that is taking place in the literature on social support is that reliance is being -placed less on anecdotal and clinical evidence and more on empirical inquiry. The chapters of this book reflect this important development and identify the frontiers that are currently being explored.
Author : Graham Allan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138264288
How important are social networks to daily life? There is now substantial evidence that attachment to a network may be vital in securing employment, in promoting good health, in maintaining positive relationships, and in supporting people in transitions through the life course. Equally, lack of access to networks may lead to problems of various kinds, such as poverty, lack of support in old age, and social isolation. Providing an overview of the social network literature with a particular focus on the USA and Britain, this illuminating volume reviews the range of social issues and concerns associated with the social network perspective. Examples of quantitative and qualitative studies are given using a broad network approach, and the volume concludes with a discussion of the implications for social and public policy of a network perspective.
Author : Judith A. Levy,B.A. Pescosolido
Publisher : JAI Press Incorporated
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0762308818
This volume is directed toward researchers and health professionals with an interest in the interstices of social networks and health. It consists of original papers that address critical themes in health-related social network research and disease prevention.
Author : Frank Nestmann,Klaus Hurrelmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110143607
Author : Tonya Louise Schuster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Older people
ISBN : UCR:31210007112012
Author : Antonina Bambina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computer network resources
ISBN : OCLC:1019706439