The scientific study of psychological and behavioural processes in health, illness and health care. Much illness in industrialized societies is the direct consequence of health related behaviours such as cigarette smoking (see NICOTINE), excessive...

Health and illness behaviors are associated with level of disability, quality of life, patterns of illness, and risk of death. It is tempting to view such health-related outcomes solely through the lenses provided by the biomedical sciences; however,...

Abnormal Biological Cognitive Developmental Emotion Experimental Evolutionary Mathematical Neuropsychology Personality Positive Psychonomics Psychophysics Social...

JOHN L. ARNETT University of Manitoba Abstract This article traces the historical development of Canadian medicare and its significant influence on shaping not only the clinical services provided within Canada's public health care system but also its major impact on the...

Health psychology is concerned with the contribution of psychology to |the promotion and maintenance of health, the prevention and treatment of illness, the identification of etiologic and diagnostic correlates of health, illness and related dysfunction, and the analysis and improvement of the health...

As little as five minutes of exercise could help smokers quit, says a new study.Research published in the international medical journal Addiction showed that moderate exercise, such as walking, significantly reduced the intensity of smokers' nicotine withdrawal symptoms."If we found the same effects in a...

Fitness research shows that when a recording reminds them, even people who rarely exercise can be persuaded to get off the couch.Researchers at Stanford University, who studied sedentary people for a year, found that automated exercise reminder phone calls had about the same get-up-and-go power...