<p>‘This Handbook is an outstanding work of scholarship. Written by leading international experts it provides a timely, comprehensive illustration of the most substantial achievements in this new scientific discipline. The nineteen chapters address major social and psychological determinants of health and related disorders, discuss interventions and policy implications of current knowledge, and offer useful recommendations for students and researchers. Given its excellence, the book will be an authoritative resource for anyone interested in this important field of scientific inquiry.’ - <strong>Johannes Siegrist, Senior Professor of Work Stress Research, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany.</strong></p>

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: Part I: Methodological challenges in studying psychosocial factors and health; Part II: Psychosocial factors in the etiology and prognosis of chronic diseases; Part III: Controversies in the psychosocial approach; Part IV: Interventions and policy implications Part V: Future research directionsTaking advantage of a huge growth in research in recent years, the book provides the reader with the essentials to evaluate the diverse set of studies on psychosocial factors and health that are published today, and describes study designs in this field of research, progress in judging the validity of epidemiological evidence, as well as challenges in translating evidence into action.This is an important and timely book. Providing methodological rigour, critical analysis and the policy implications of this emerging field of study, The Routledge International Handbook of Psychosocial Epidemiology will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers within both behavioural and medical sciences, as well as policy makers and others working in health and social care.
Les mer
ForewordProfessor Lisa Bergman Part I: Concepts and Methods in the Study of Psychosocial Factors and HealthChapter 1 Psychosocial Epidemiology: Concepts and MethodsMika Kivimäki, G. David Batty, Andrew Steptoe, Ichiro KawachiChapter 2 Causal Inference in Psychosocial EpidemiologyM. Maria Glymour, Laura D. KubzanskyPart II: Psychosocial Factors Linked to HealthChapter 3 Social Networks Yongjoo Kim, Ichiro KawachiChapter 4 Workplace Stressors Mika Kivimäki, Jane E. Ferrie, Ichiro KawachiChapter 5 Religious CommunitiesTyler J. VanderWeeleChapter 6 Depression and Negative EmotionsAndrew SteptoeChapter 7 Positive Psychological WellbeingJulie K. Boehm, Eric S. Kim, Laura D. KubzanskyChapter 8 Personality, Intelligence and GenesMichelle Luciano, Alexander Weiss, Catharine Gale, Ian J. Deary Chapter 9 Gender Differences in the Health Effects of Psychosocial FactorsAnne McMunn et alPart III: Psychosocial Factors in the Etiology and Prognosis of Specific Diseases and DisordersChapter 10 Type 2 Diabetes Frans Pouwer, Briana Mezuk, Adam TabakChapter 11 Cardiovascular DiseasesMika KivimäkiChapter 12 CancerKatriina Heikkilä, Markus JokelaChapter 13 Infectious DiseaseAllison E. Aiello, Amanda M. Simanek, Rebecca C. Stebbins, Jennifer B. DowdChapter 14 SuicideG. David Batty, Mika Kivimäki, Steven Bell, Catherine Gale, Martin J. Shipley, Elise Whitley, David Gunnell Chapter 15 Mood Disorders and Cognitive ImpairmentKlaus P. Ebmeier, Charlotte Allen, Anya Topiwala, Eniko ZoldosChapter 16 Sleep DisordersTorbjörn ÅkerstedtPart IV: Interventions and Policy ImplicationsChapter 17 Behavioral and Psychological Interventions for the Management of Cardiac PatientsAlan RozanskiChapter 18 Targeting Psychosocial Factors to Reduce Health InequalitiesAngela Donkin, Michael G. MarmotPart V: Future Research DirectionsChapter 19 Current State of Psychosocial Epidemiology: Where Are We? What Are the Next Steps? Mika Kivimäki, Andrew Steptoe, G. David Batty, Ichiro Kawachi
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781138942547
Publisert
2017-12-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
884 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
426

Om bidragsyterne

Mika Kivimaki is Professor and Chair of Social Epidemiology at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London, UK, Director of the UK Whitehall II cohort study, Research Professor in Clinicum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Principal Investigator of the IPD-Work Cohort Consortium.

G David Batty is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health at University College London, UK, an Honorary Professor of Epidemiology in the MRC Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow.

Andrew Steptoe is Head of the Department of Behavioural Science and Health in the Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care in the Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, UK, and Principal Investigator of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).

Ichiro Kawachi is John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology, and Chair of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA.