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The Psychology of Health and Illness: An Open Access Course Jane Ogden This Course is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International License ( ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. *2018 edited by University of the People Course Development, under the terms of the license, to correct typos, grammar issues, and to convert British English spellings to American Psychology of Health and Illness: Jane Ogden Overview For centuries health professionals have r

Biomedicine tends to focus on knowledge as a predictor of behavior (“I know smoking kills”) and disease as a predictor of health outcomes (“I have cancer and therefore will die”). Health psychology, however, argues that there is much more variability between people than this and this variability is our focus.

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