Contents


Preface

This book aims to add knowledge to the field of health sciences and public health in particular. The focus is mainly on health psychology; namely the bio-psychosocial approach as a way to embrace health promotion, illness prevention, and health maintenance. The bio-psychosocial approach has contributed immensely to the field of health psychology. As a discipline, health psychology aims to examine how biological, psychological, and social factors influence people's behavior regarding their health status. The psychology of health is a specialty within the discipline of psychology concerned with individual behaviors and lifestyles affecting physical health. In the book by Sarafino (2008:11), the following goals of health psychology

• Identify the causes and diagnosis correlates of health, illness and related

The recognition of health psychology as a designated field is widely acknowledged. The relationship between mind and body and the effect of one upon the other has been widely debated amongst philosophers, psychologists, and physiologists. Central to the debate has been the question: **Why many people do not do what they know is in their best interest and why some people are more open to the adoption of healthy habits than others?** This is the key question that drives health psychologists to explore and influence lifestyles and behaviors that are conducive or detrimental to good health at the population level. This book is therefore in support of a consistent focus on the role of knowledge in informing people of the risks to themselves that certain behaviors can engender. I acknowledge the good work done by all the authors who contributed to this book. I hope that the readers, especially students, academics, researchers, and other professionals in Health Sciences and related fields, will learn the best practices as provided in the book. The specific

• Analyse and improve health care systems and health policy.

• Introductory Chapter: Bio-Psychosocial Model of Health

• Assessing Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with

• Physiology of Human Birth and Mental Disease

• Health Education and Lifestyle in Czech Republic

were presented:

• Promote and maintain health

chapters included in this book are as follows:

Pulmonary Tuberculosis

• Ethanol

• Prevent and treat illness

dysfunction
