Associations are described between health (variously measured) and occupational class,
gender, marital status, age, ethnicity and area of residence, using British data. It is argued …

Research has consistently reported a female excess of minor physical morbidity and
affective disorders compared to men. Using data from a national cross sectional survey of …

Using real-life examples and case histories and a highly readable, jargon-free style, this
volume addresses the complex interactions between health, illness, and culture. Integrating …

Unique in combining insights from social psychiatry with recent findings in biological
psychiatry, this book provides a new and invaluable model for common mental disorders …

This paper reports the community prevalence of 20 life traumas and considers their
individual relevance as risk factors for psychiatric disorder. Also presented is the first …

Compelling evidence for an association between major adverse life experience and
subsequent major depression is reviewed. Determining individual vulnerability to life stress …

These reprints are taken from original copies ofeach book. In many cases the condition of
these originals is not perfect. The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of …

Background With the exception of studies of individual traumatic events, the significance of
stress exposure in psychiatric disorder previously has not been effectively examined …

This study evaluated a theoretically and empirically based model of the progression of acute
neck and back pain to chronic pain and disability, developed from the literature in chronic …

Positive and negative life events and social support were correlated with illness among
Navy Submarine School students. Negative, but not positive, life events in the recent past …