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Health psychology is an area of applied psychological research and a profession. Health psychology research examines the determinants and consequences of physical health, showing that health behaviors are critical to health. Four core topics in health psychology are discussed in this article: (1) the promotion and maintenance of health, (2) prevention and treatment of (chronic) illness, (3) the etiologic and diagnostic correlates of health and illness, and (4) patient behavior in the health care system.
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de Ridder, D. (2015). Health Psychology. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition (pp. 674–678). Elsevier Inc. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.14099-1
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