Title | Toward a New Definition of Health [electronic resource] : Psychosocial Dimensions / edited by Paul I. Ahmed, George V. Coelho |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1979 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2991-6 |
Descript | XXXIV, 470 p. online resource |
I: Dimensions of Health and Illness: Toward an Integrated Model -- 1 Toward a New Definition of Health: An Overview -- 2 Disease and Illness from a Biocultural Standpoint -- 3 Sickness as Cultural Semantics: Issues for an Anthropological Medicine and Psychiatry -- 4 The Dimensions of Medical Rationality: A Problematic for the Psychosocial Study of Medicine -- 5 Psychosocial Factors and Health: New Program Directions -- 6 The Role of Indigenous Medicine in WHOโs Definition of Health -- II: Psychosocial Factors in Disease: Some Specific Examples -- 7 Occupational Stress and Health -- 8 Psychosocial Dimensions of Drug Abuse -- 9 Views on the Psychosocial Dimensions of Cancer and Cancer Treatment -- 10 Labeling and Discrimination in Mental Health -- III: Health Needs of Special Groups: Some Specific Examples -- 11 Coping with Health Problems in Aging -- 12 Toward a Definition of Health Risks for Ethnic Minorities: The Case of Hypertension and Heart Disease -- 13 The Social and Psychological Aspects of Family Planning -- 14 Healthy Family Functioning: Cross-Cultural Perspectives -- 15 Urban Health Services in Developing Countries: Culture, Technology, and Politics -- IV: Methodology for Health Analysis -- 16 Evaluating Family and Work Settings -- 17 Evaluating Human Service Programs: Psychosocial Methods -- 18 Health Sector Assessment -- V: Implications for Practitioners and Policy Planners -- 19 Toward a More Caring Society -- 20 Mental Health Services: Alternatives Now and for the Future -- 21 International Health Planning: Psychosocial Issues and Implications for Development Assistance -- 22 Health Care in the Year 2000