Syllabus
Introduction to health psychology, theories and research methods
Health behaviors
Health indicators and their measurement
Stress, health and illness
Healthcare - using health services, patient-provider interaction and communication, decisions in health care
Sleep - psychological aspects
Chronic and terminal illness - associated psychosocial factors
Health-related psychosocial prevention and intervention
Annotation
The subject is the basis of a detailed introduction to the source, background and objectives of health psychology in the context of related the social and natural sciences.