Expand your knowledge of health and the personal and social factors that contribute to a person’s well-being.

Health and Human Behaviour provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the different models and new ways of thinking around health. By approaching health from a whole-person perspective, the text explores the interrelated psychological, personal and social influences on health, demonstrating that wellness and illness are social and personal events, and not simply biological states.

1. Who is Sick? Defining and Applying Concepts of Illness, Disease and Health

2. Infant, Child and Adolescent Development

3. Adult Development and Ageing

4. Reactions to Illness

5. Understanding Reactions to Chronic Conditions

6. Understanding Health Behaviour

7. Thinking about Health Behaviour: Cognition and Health

8. How to Change Health Behaviour

9. A Complex Example: Activity, Eating and Body

10. Understanding Mind and Body Interactions

11. A Complex Example: Understanding Pain

12. Stress and Trauma

13. Coping: How to Deal with Stress

14. Socio-cultural Influences and Inequalities

15. Health Literacy

16. Promoting Health and Preventing Illness

Ken Jones is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Monash University.

Debra Creedy is a Professor Emeritus and Professor of Perinatal Mental Health at Griffith University.

Katrina Lane-Krebs is a lecturer in theSchool of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Sciences at CQUniversity.

Florin Oprescu is an Associate Professor in Health Promotion at the University of the Sunshine Coast.