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Psychology, Health & Medicine is a multidisciplinary journal highlighting human factors in health. The journal provides a peer reviewed forum to report on issues of psychology and health in practice. This key publication reaches an international audience, highlighting the variation and similarities within different settings and exploring multiple health and illness issues from theoretical, practical and management perspectives. It provides a critical forum to examine the wide range of applied health and illness issues and how they incorporate psychological knowledge, understanding, theory and intervention. The journal reflects the growing recognition of psychosocial issues as they affect health planning, medical care, disease reaction, intervention, quality of life, adjustment adaptation and management.

For many years theoretical research was very distant from applied understanding. The emerging movement in health psychology, changes in medical care provision and training, and consumer awareness of health issues all contribute to a growing need for applied research. This journal focuses on practical applications of theory, research and experience and provides a bridge between academic knowledge, illness experience, wellbeing and health care practice.

Readership

Psychology, Health & Medicine is aimed directly at health psychologists, general psychologists, and health care workers such as hospital and community doctors, social workers, planners and managers. The journal will be accessible and of use to both the academy and the professionals.

Peer Review Integrity

All research articles in this journal, including those in special issues, special sections or supplements, have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two independent referees.

Disclaimer

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Editor:

Professor Lorraine Sherr MBE - Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK

Associate Editor:

Professor Margaret Chesney - University of California, San Francisco, USA

International Editorial Board:

Professor Susan Ayers - City University London, UK
Professor Paul Bennett - Swansea University, Swansea, Wales
Dr Arvin Bhana - Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
Dr James Blumenthal - Duke University Medical Centre, USA
Professor Kelly Brownell - Yale University, USA
Professor Jule G. Cwikel - University of the Negev, Israel
Dr Christopher Desmond - Human Sciences Research Council, Overport , South Africa
Dr Gerald M. Devins - University Health Network, Toronto
Dr Doug Drossman - UNC School of Medicine, USA
Professor Robin Goodwin - Brunel University, UK
Professor Martin Hagger - Curtin University, Australia
Professor Robert Hornik - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Professor Ashraf Kagee - Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa
Dr John Lambie - Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Professor David Marrero - Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Professor Christina Maslach - University of California at Berkeley, USA
Professor Philip Moore - The George Washington University, USA
Professor R. Glynn Owens - University of Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Vikram Patel - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Dr Denise de Ridder - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Professor Caroline Sabin - Royal Free and University College Medical School, UCL, London, UK
Professor Paul Salkovkis - University of Oxford, UK
Professor Kim Shifren - Towson University, USA
Dr Janet S. St. Lawrence - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Professor Mark Tomlinson - Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Professor Jane Ussher - School of Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Dr Gerdi Weidner - San Franscisco State University
Professor Albert Wu - Johns Hopkins University, USA
Professor Marco Yzer - University of Minnesota, USA

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