Focus on International Health Psychology "I will not kiss an ashtray!": Interpersonal Health Discourse about Smoking in Poland

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Skuczynska ◽  
Karolina Lisowska
Keyword(s):  
Health Psychology ◽  
International Health ◽  
Health Discourse

‘Health psychology’ or ‘psychology for health’? A history of psychologists’ engagement with health in South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffery Yen ◽  
Oriana Vaccarino
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Psychology ◽  
North America ◽  
South African ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Health Related ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Discourse

In contrast to the institutionalization of health psychology in North America and Europe, much psychological work on health issues in South Africa emerged as part of a critical revitalization of South African psychology as a whole, coinciding with the dismantling of Apartheid and global shifts in health discourse. The field’s development reflects attempts to engage with urgent health problems in the context of rapid sociopolitical changes that followed democratic transition in the 1990s, and under new conditions of knowledge production. We provide an account of these issues, as well as reflections on the field’s future, as inflected through the experiences of 12 South African psychologists whose careers span the emergence of health-related psychology to the present day.

International Health and Aid Policies

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Unger ◽  
Pierre De Paepe ◽  
Kasturi Sen ◽  
Werner Soors
Keyword(s):  
International Health

Health psychology and health promotion

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toni Faltermaier
Keyword(s):  
Health Psychology ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Prevention And Health Promotion ◽  
Basic And Applied Research

Abstract. The Flensburg health psychology group takes a salutogenic perspective and aims at developing innovative health promotion approaches. It stands in the interdisciplinary context of health and educational sciences. Our focus in research is on both, stress processes and lay representations of health and illness in the context of salutogenic theories of health. Basic and applied research activities aim at developing subject-oriented approaches of prevention and health promotion that are designed to promote health resources and competencies in selected settings and target groups. Current research is concentrated on socially disadvantaged groups, on occupational groups and on men to develop tailored health promotion approaches that reach groups in need and which show sustainable effects.

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