HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES IN PUBLIC HEALTH
Zuhal Baltas Ph.D.
Living with happiness in one’s own existence and contributing to society and human values makes human existence meaningful. The basic condition for the formation of this meaning is to be healthy. In order to recognize health problems, find the most appropriate solutions and treatments for the individual, and produce versatile solutions, a perspective that includes all variables affecting health is needed. One of these variables is health psychology.
Health psychology, in which the principles of psychology are used to change people’s attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors about health and illness; It undertakes the extremely important mission of laying the foundation for protective and developmental studies in every field that focuses on human resources, especially in the health sector.
Prof., whose academic studies include health behavior, health belief models, standardization of psychological tests, lifestyle, communication in health and health psychology at work, in parallel with the subject of stress. Dr. The book “Health Psychology”, written by Zuhal Baltaş, the first edition of which was published in 2000, has reached its 5th edition. The book is the first work on the subject both in the field of health psychology and in the field of public health, due to the bridge it creates with medical science.
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