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Psycho-social stress and health disturbances.
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The results are taken as support of the hypothesis that illnesses are the more or less automatic result of a failure to adjust to stress, which is related to macro-social structures and processes.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1974-02-01. It has received 19 citations till now.read more
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The stress-buffering role of social support and personal competence among the rural married.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the possible stress buffering properties of personal competence and social support with regard to depressive symptoms and found that individuals lacking both internal and external resources would manifest higher levels of symptoms as a result of increasing number of life events than would individuals possessing such resources.
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A systematic review of allostatic load in relation to socioeconomic position: Poor fidelity and major inconsistencies in biomarkers employed.
TL;DR: A more critical approach should be taken in the calculation of AL indices in particular to how far it captures the biological effects of psychosocial stress that may underlie socioeconomic differences in health.
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Concepts in alternative medicine.
TL;DR: Different interpretations are presented of the concepts of health, disease, diagnosis, therapy and patient in three main frames of medical thinking: the pharmaceutical, the integrational and the holistic model.
A General Review of Factors Related to the Health Care Delivery Process: A Working Bibliography.
TL;DR: This review represents a cross-section of recent research regarding factors related to the health care delivery process and is organized into 10 different major topic areas felt to be relevant to a wide range of behaviorally oriented interests, and should be useful in identifying future efforts.
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Multidimensional scaling by optimizing goodness of fit to a nonmetric hypothesis
TL;DR: The fundamental hypothesis is that dissimilarities and distances are monotonically related, and a quantitative, intuitively satisfying measure of goodness of fit is defined to this hypothesis.
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Sociology and modern systems theory
TL;DR: Buckley as discussed by the authors suggests that a system is both the sum of individual purposes and something more than this, but dismisses as irrelevant the question of how individual purposes are generated.
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Social science in medicine
Leo W. Simmons,Harold G. Wolff +1 more
TL;DR: Students in medicine may well profit in the practice of their chosen profession simply through the awareness they will gain by reading this book, and the authors open up avenues for investigation of the links between stress and disease.
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Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientists.
Harry M. Johnson,Walter Buckley +1 more
TL;DR: Buku ini memberikan penjelasan mengenai konsep umum tentang penelitian, bagian, keseluruhan dan tingkatan dari integrasi, sistem, organisasi dan logika hubungan.
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The life events inventory: A measure of the relative severity of psycho-social stressors
TL;DR: The work reported here was undertaken to remedy what were seen as three important deficiencies that reduced the usefulness of the S.R.E.M.R .E.