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Health, Hierarchy, and Social Anxiety
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1999Abstract:This paper suggests that the main reasons why populations with narrower income differences tend to have lower mortality rates are to be found in the psychosocial impact of low social status. There is now substantial evidence showing that where income differences are greater, violence tends to be more common, people are less likely to trust ...
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Health anxiety and patient behavior
Journal of Health Economics, 2003Economic models of patient decision-making emphasize the costs of getting medical attention and the improved physical health that results from it. This note builds a model of patient decision-making when fears or anxiety about the future-captured as beliefs about next period's state of health-also enter the patient's utility function.
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The Health Anxiety Questionnaire
British Journal of Health Psychology, 1996Despite its high prevalence and implications for health care resources, health anxiety is still a relatively neglected area of research. This paper describes the development of the Health Anxiety Questionnaire (HAQ), a measure based on a cognitive–behavioural analysis of health anxiety. The measure was developed to identify individuals with high levels
Michael P. Lucock, Stephen Morley
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2011
As these quotes demonstrate, the pervasiveness of nineteenth-century European belief in the power of environments to affect health meant that discerning and mitigating its adverse effects took on particular importance in empire. Contemporaries held that imperialism displaced European bodies, and sometimes even minds, by subjecting them to unknown ...
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As these quotes demonstrate, the pervasiveness of nineteenth-century European belief in the power of environments to affect health meant that discerning and mitigating its adverse effects took on particular importance in empire. Contemporaries held that imperialism displaced European bodies, and sometimes even minds, by subjecting them to unknown ...
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Hypochondriasis (health anxiety)
2012AbstractHypochondriasis is a preoccupation with the fear that one has, or may develop, serious disease despite evidence to the contrary. So defined, the disorder affects between 2 and 7 per cent of patients attending general medical clinics and is a cause of physical dysfunction and disability.
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Psychiatry, 2004
Abstract Health anxiety is usually transient or easily dealt with by appropriate medical reassurance and/or treatment (Figure 1). In some cases, even though no physical illness has been detected, the patient is not reassured and their health anxiety continues.
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Abstract Health anxiety is usually transient or easily dealt with by appropriate medical reassurance and/or treatment (Figure 1). In some cases, even though no physical illness has been detected, the patient is not reassured and their health anxiety continues.
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2014
In a scene from the 1916 film, Wien im Krieg (Vienna in War) a doctor gives new recruits a medical examination, or a Musterung. Although this was standard procedure at the time, in the context of the First World War, this Musterung was invested with additional eugenic significance by the film.1 The purpose of the examination was to reassure the view ...
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In a scene from the 1916 film, Wien im Krieg (Vienna in War) a doctor gives new recruits a medical examination, or a Musterung. Although this was standard procedure at the time, in the context of the First World War, this Musterung was invested with additional eugenic significance by the film.1 The purpose of the examination was to reassure the view ...
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