Health psychology
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health-psychology-174-6551540
title:
Health psychology
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Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. The discipline is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, chronically occurring environmental stressors affecting the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, cumulatively, can harm health. Behavioral factors can also affect a person's health. For
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encyclopedia
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Study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_psychology
date created:
2005-02-04T16:19:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T16:59:54Z
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