Health Sociology and Health Psychology

Course Description

Health psychology is a field within Psychology that focuses on the behavioral, cognitive, psychosocial, and physiological factors that influence individual responses to health and illness. The purpose of the course is to familiarize the student with the concepts of health sociology and the acquisition that will enable them to understand the importance of the social environment in health and illness and to explain the reasons and processes that specific socio-economic and cultural conditions affect species and the distribution of diseases in different population groups.

The purpose of the course is to-

• provide students with the basic knowledge for understanding the psychosocial needs of the patient (adolescent and child) and for developing a “supportive” relationship, especially when it concerns a chronic and life-threatening health problem, and
• familiarize the students  with the concepts of health sociology and the acquisition that will enable them to understand the importance of the social environment in health and illness and to explain the reasons and processes that specific socio-economic and cultural conditions affect species and the distribution of diseases in different population groups