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This sixth edition has been streamlined in order to focus on the core issues pertinent to students. A new chapter on stress has also been added. Lecturers may recommend the chapters in any order, according to the requirements of any particular course and their personal interests and preferences. Chapters are written as free-standing documents. No prior reading of other chapters is assumed.

Each chapter begins with an Outline and ends with a detailed Summary of key ideas and suggestions for Future Research. Each chapter contains tables, figures and boxes, and recent examples of key studies to guide student understanding. International studies present works by key people living in different parts of the world, showing how context, culture and the environment affect health and behaviour.

Key terms are identified by bold and defined in the Glossary at the end of the book.

A useful companion reader to this textbook is The Health Psychology Reader (Marks, 2002a), which reprints and discusses 25 key articles, accompanied by introductions to the main themes. Readers can also refer to the 85 key articles in New Directions in Health Psychology (Murray and Chamberlain, 2015).