Symptoms, illness behavior, and help-seeking
By: edited by David Mechanic.
Contributors: Mechanic, David, 1936-
Series: Monographs in psychosocial epidemiology ;; v. 3
Publisher: Prodist
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Health behavior -- United States.; Help-seeking behavior -- United States.; Symptoms.; Epidemiology -- United States.; Sick role.; Patient acceptance of health care.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: The epidemiology of illness behavior and its relationship to physical and psychological distress / David Mechanic; title: Uses and abuses of the Langner index / Blair Wheaton; title: Self-regulation and the mechanisms for symptom appraisal / Howard Leventhal, David R. Nerenz, Andrea Straus; title: No time for depression, a study of help-seeking among mothers of preschool children / Susannah Ginsberg, George W. Brown; title: Psychosocial disorders in primary medical care / Paul Williams, Michael Shepherd; title: Help-seeking in severe mental illness / John A. Clausen, Nancy G. Pfeffer, Carol L. Huffine.