- Are you a medical student or a medical practitioner?
- Want to know the socio-economic and environmental factors that affect human cognition and public health?
- Are you looking for an online course regarding this?

If this is so then this is most certainly the right place for you and many others just like you. This package contains a course that has been designed in such a way that it can help make the learning process a lot easier for many users. If you are facing problems in grasping the basics then this course will turn out to be useful in accomplishing the intended objectives.

What is this course and what are the benefits of taking it?

This health psychology online course will show you the correlations between medical care and psychological wellness. In addition, the course concentrates on the socio-economic and environmental factors that affect human cognition and public health. This course is open to both undergraduates and graduate students; it also has no special academic prerequisites so all that is required of you is a curious mind. During the course, you will also be required to complete 7 small essay assignments as well as a group presentation.

Table of Contents:

- Conceptual and theoretical issues
- Research methods in the social psychological study of health
- Tension between individual (micro) and social environmental (macro) perspective
- Mind/body and health
- Conceptual issues and evidence for pathophysiological paths between the nervous system and the endocrine and immune system
- Stress in disease etiology
- Personality in disease etiology
- Ameliorating factors in stress such as coping
- Resilient personality and social support
- The psychology of illness processes
- Doctor-patient interaction
- Coping with disease
- Theoretical models of health promotion and disease prevention

Author Bio

Prof. Ilan H. Meyer will be the instructor for this course.