Product Description: Not long ago, it was assumed that coronary heart disease mainly--or only--affected men. Now that CHD is recognized as a leading killer of women as well as men, numerous research studies have been made of its diverse presentations in women, causal factors, and possibilities for prevention and treatment...read more

Product Description: Stress, Coping, and Depression is the latest volume based on the Annual Stress and Coping Conference held at the University of Miami. In this timely collection, leading researchers offer a variety of new perspectives on depression...read more

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Product Description: Men treated for localized prostate cancer have an excellent medical prognosis, but may have difficulty readjusting to life after surgery as a result of treatment related side effects. Changes in physical functioning and ongoing PSA monitoring due to the possibility of recurrence may bring added stress...read more

Product Description: An examination of the ways that community-based behavioural and social science has been applied to major public health concerns. The contributors discuss mobilization, prevention programmes, intervention evaluations, and research. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This special issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine highlights international research that has contributed to our understanding of the complex interrelationships among health, work, and the workplace. The articles in this special issue have a particular focus towards an improved understanding of cardiovascular disease and cancer prevention: two of the major contributors to the global disease burden, and the major causes of death in most industrialized countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of men and women in industrialized countries. In older age groups, CVD is also the most important cause for hospitalization, and, in many countries, it is the basis of early retirement from work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The fourth volume based on the annual University of Miami symposia on stress and coping, this new addition to the series is the first to focus on developmental and clinical stressors during infancy and childhood. While developmental stressors such as early separation and stranger anxiety, novelty stress, and fear-evoked personal distress, arise during normal development, clinical stressors result from certain conditions that are relatively common in infancy and early childhood such as premature birth and respiratory disease...read more

Product Description: This is the second volume based on the annual University of Miami Symposia on Stress and Coping. The present volume is focused on some representative stresses and coping mechanisms that occur during different stages of development including infancy, childhood, and adulthood...read more