Life-span Perspectives on Health and Illness (Hardcover)

This volume offers a comprehensive and conceptually integrated overview of the changing biological, psychological, and social/environmental influences on health and illness from the prenatal period through infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Based on the premise that protective and risk factors vary with life stage, several chapters examine the development of major biological systems and the changing role of genetics and environment over time. In addition, they provide information on environmental influences during the prenatal period and early childhood, chronic illness in childhood, and health and health risks in adolescence. Chapters on adulthood give special emphasis to mid-life transitions in health, resiliency in later life, and the impact of caregiving on health. Final chapters focus on death and dying and on an integrative model of health and illness across the life span.

General

Imprint:	Psychology Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1998
First published:	1999
Editors:	Thomas L Whitman • Thomas V. Merluzzi • Robert D White
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	324
ISBN-13:	978-0-8058-2771-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8058-2771-4
Barcode:	9780805827712

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