Integrating Behavioral and Social Sciences with Public Health - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557987211 ISBN 13: 9781557987211

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA), 2001

Synopsis

An examination of the ways that community-based behavioural and social science has been applied to major public health concerns. The contributors discuss mobilization, prevention programmes, intervention evaluations, and research.

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About the Author

Frank J. Penedo, Ph.D., is a clinical health psychologist and associate professor at the University of Miami, Department of Psychology, and the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (SCCC), Division of Biobehavioral Oncology and Cancer Epidemiology. He is also a member of
Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the Miami VAMC and the University of Miami Center on Aging.
Michael H. Antoni, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami and Program Leader at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, and has been a licensed psychologist in the State of Florida since 1987. Dr. Antoni leads the Biobehavioral
Oncology, Epidemiology, Prevention and Control research program, which includes over 20 faculty from the departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Medicine, and Microbiology/Immunology working together on transdisciplinary research projects. Dr. Antoni also serves on the graduate faculty
in both the Clinical Health Psychology doctoral program and the Cancer Biology doctoral program at the University of Miami.
Neil Schneiderman, Ph.D., is James L. Knight Professor of Health Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Medicine at the University of Miami. He is Director of the University's Behavioral Medicine Research Center and Director of the Division of Health Psychology in the Department of
Psychology. Dr. Schneiderman is the Director of both an NIH Program Project and a Research Training Grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute on biobehavioral bases of cardiovascular disease risk and management. He is also Principal Investigator of theNIH Multi-Center Hispanic
Community Health Study as well as an NIMH Research Training Grant on psychoneuroimmunology and HIV/AIDS.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557987211
• ISBN 13: 9781557987211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Schneiderman Professor Of Psychology Neil, Speers Professor Marjorie A, Silva Julia M, Tomes Henry, Gentry Jacquelyn H