During this unit, you will be further explore the importance of psychology and social factors as related to health.

Specifically, at the end of this unit you will be able to:

• Evaluate the relevance of psychosocial factors in the health of modern day society;
• Explore the psychological factors related to both health and illness.
• Evaluate the role of health psychology in improving the health of the nation.

In order to complete this unit, you should have the following:

• Access to the introductory chapter of a good health psychology text-book. For example Ogden (2004).

Guidelines on these web pages: how to use them, and the various conventions used within them can be found on this link.