Deborah Fish Ragin is Professor of Psychology at Montclair State University. She served as an Assistant Professor on the faculties of Hunter College, City University of New York, and as Assistant Research Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (now the Icahn School of Medicine) before joining Montclair State. She also served as an American Psychological Association Representative to the United Nations, focusing on the psychosocial impact of HIV/AIDS.

1. An Interdisciplinary View of Health 2. Research Methods 3. Global Communicable and Chronic Disease 4. Theories and Models of Health Behavior Change 5. Risky Health Behaviors 6. Emotional Health and Well-Being 7. Stress and Coping 8. Psychoneuroimmunology 9. Cardiovascular Disease 10. Chronic Pain Management and Arthritis 11. Cancer 12. Health Care Systems and Health Policy: Effects on Health Outcomes 13. The Health Psychologist's Role: Research, Application, and Advocacy

This textbook takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology and examines five systems that affect individual health outcomes: individual, culture/family, social/physical environment, health systems and health policy.