Laura S. Richman (North Carolina Duke University)

Relational Health

How Social Connection Impacts Our Physical and Mental Wellbeing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on evidence-based solutions, Relational Health aims to incorporate social relationships into health care policy and delivery. This book is primarily written for students in population health, public policy, sociology, medicine, and social work, introducing them to ways in which relationships impact our health.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9781316515570
• ISBN-10: 1316515575
• Artikelnr.: 64524656

Autorenporträt

Laura Richman, Ph.D. is a Visiting Professor at George Washington University, USA, and has been a Professor at Duke University, USA, since 2003. She is a health psychologist who has published widely in the field of social drivers of health. This book was developed when Richman was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 2019¿2020.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of boxes
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. How social relationships matter for health
3. The relationship-driven factors in obesity, opioid use disorder, and depression in older adults
4. Current practices of medical intervention for obesity, opioids, and social isolation
5. Strategies for relational healthcare
6. Relational health policy priorities
7. Conclusions
Index.