Background Suboptimal treatment adherence remains a barrier to the control of many
infectious diseases, including tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, which contribute significantly to …

This paper examines the ways in which populations at risk of HIV in the developed world
have enculturated the knowledges and technologies of both the medical and the social …

Much work on sexual health has emphasized adverse outcomes such as sexually
transmitted infections/HIV, unintended pregnancy, and sexual violence. Although these …

Welcome to Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice (Seventh Edition). This
textbook provides an in-depth introduction to the growing field of health psychology. It is …

As parents of a current and a former teenage daughter, it often seems to us (FG and MG) that
the lives of adolescents revolve around risk. We realize that may be somewhat of an …

I would like to thank a number of people for their help and support during the writing of this
book. Thanks to all those who have made comments on drafts of the chapters or responded …

Policy makers, professionals and the public have become increasingly concerned with
identifying and managing young people who are not only troubled or at risk, but troubling or …

This paper critically examines recent explanations of youth and their risk-taking. Literature in
this area has traditionally been dominated by psycho-dynamic explanations of social action …

Based on observation of sex education programmes and in-depth interviews with young
people, the authors aim to understand more about adolescent's attitudes to sexuality and …

As one of the key tools of social constructionist research, discourse analysis has allowed us
to explore the ways in whichhealth'andillness' are constructed through language. There are …