Contributors

Preface

Biosocial Considerations in Chronic Illness Perceptions and Decisions

Tom Hickey

Linear and Dynamical Thinking about Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Risk

Jerry Suls

Rene Martin

Commentary: Acute and Chronic Psychological Processes in Cardiovascular Disease

Derek W. Johnston

A Cognitive-Affective Analysis of Cancer Behavior in the Elderly: Are You as Healthy as You Feel?

Suzanne M. Miller

James C. Knowles

Robert Schnoll

Joanne Buzaglo

Commentary: Beyond the Sociodemographics: From Prediction to Explanation of the Effects of Gender and Social Deprivation in Recovery from Myocardial Infarction

Marie Johnston

Hannah McGee

Elspeth Graham

Malcolm MacLeod

Psychosocial Factors in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

Lynda H. Powell

Ethnicity and Psychosocial Factors in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

Keith E. Whitfield

Tamara A. Baker

Dwayne T. Brandon

Getting Help to Those Most Likely to Benefit: Patient Characteristics and Treatment Success

John C. Barefoot

Exercise Interventions and Aging: Psychological and Physical Health Benefits in Older Adults

James A. Blumenthal

Elizabeth C. D. Gullete

Commentary: Challenges to Using Exercise Interventions in Older Adults

Edith A. Burns

How Provider Payment Policies Affect the Health-Care-Seeking Behavior of the Elderly

Bruce Stuart

Commentary: Third-Party Payors and the Patient-Professional Relationship

Bryan E. Dowd

Commentary: Factors Affecting Health-Care-Seeking Behavior of the Elderly

Pearl S. German

The Potential for Health Care Organizations to Promote Maintenance and Change in Health Behaviors Among the Elderly

William Rakowski

Melissa A. Clark

Commentary: Health Maintenance Organizations for the Elderly Patient?

Elaine Leventhal

Commentary: Health Care Organizational Structure, Prevention, and Health Behavior Among the Elderly

Stephen Crystal

Afterword: Health Behavior and the Elderly: How Do We Understand Its Determinants and Their Goals?

Howard Leventhal

Author Index

Subject Index