What is health psychology? To what can we attribute its recent and rapid growth?
What will be an ideal response?
* Health psychology is the subfield of psychology devoted to understanding how psychological and social variables affect health and how we respond when we become ill.
* We can attribute its recent and rapid growth to a decrease in the number and frequency of contagious diseases and the increased importance of diseases in which behavior is a powerful determinant.
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