Health Promotion: Disciplines and Diversity (Book).

BOOK REVIEWS Evidence-based Health Promotion

The search for evidence of effectiveness of health promotion interventions has had a relatively short and concentrated history, but at least as long as the discipline itself, and continues unabated to this day. Articles on the subject have mushroomed in recent years, in all the appropriate periodicals and, in the last 5 years or so, whole text books on the subject have emerged. The security of ...

Health psychology and health promotion

Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environ...

Health Education and Health Promotion

Stress Managment and Health Promotion

Health promotion approach is utilized to address the prevention, management and early intervention for stress management and also to promote positive mental and psychological health. Stress affects everyone and must be managed effectively to reduce its chronic and deleterious effects this study consists of two sections: in first section the principals of health promotion in different human exis...

Exploring Cognitive Diversity Across Disciplines and Cultures

Since the cognitive revolution, a widely held assumption has been that—whereas content may vary across cultures—cognitive processes would be universal, especially those on the more basic levels. Even if scholars do not fully subscribe to this assumption, they often conceptualize, or tend to investigate, cognition as if it were universal (Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010). The insight that uni...