en نقش روانشناسی سلامت در ارتقاء سلامت ● International Health نامه به سردبیر Letter to Editor <div style="text-align: left;"><span mso-ansi-language:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:">Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It is concerned with understanding how <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological" title="Psychological"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">psychological</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior" title="Behavior"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">behavioral</span></a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture" title="Culture"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">cultural</span></a> factors contribute to physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, chronically occurring environmental stressors affecting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothalamic%E2%80%93pituitary%E2%80%93adrenal_axis" title="Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">hypothalamic&ndash;pituitary&ndash;adrenal axis</span></a>, cumulatively, can harm health. Behavioral factors can also affect a person&#39;s health. For example, certain behaviors can, over time, harm (smoking, excessive alcohol consumption) or enhance health (exercise, diet low in saturated fat). Health psychologists take a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model" title="Biopsychosocial model"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration: none;text-underline:none">biopsychosocial</span></a> approach. In other words, health psychologists understand health to be the product not only of biological processes (e.g., a virus, tumor, etc.) but also of psychological (e.g., thoughts and beliefs), behavioral (e.g., habits), and social processes (e.g., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_status" title="Socioeconomic status"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration: none;text-underline:none">socioeconomic status</span></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity" title="Ethnicity"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">ethnicity),</span></a></span></div> <div>Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environmental stressors which cumulatively affecting the hypothalamic&ndash;pituitary&ndash;adrenal axis, cumulatively, can harm health. On the other hand, a person&#39;s health is also interwoven with the Behavioral behavioral factors can also affect a person&#39;s health. For exampleinstance, certain behaviors behaviors, including smoking and excessive alcohol consumption can, over time, harm (smoking, excessive alcohol consumption) health but exercise and diet low in saturated fat or can enhance health (exercise, diet low in saturated fat).</div> روانشناسی سلامت, ارتقاء سلامت Health psychologists take a A biopsychosocial approach is becoming the cornerstone among the Health psychologists 1074 1076 http://jrh.gmu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-321-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ali Delshad Noghabi علی دلشاد نوقابی bayazi123@gmail.com 100319475328460013110 100319475328460013110 No Department of Psychology, School of Psychology, Islamic Azad University of Torbat-e Jam, Torbat-e Jam, Iran. Mohammad Hossein Bayazi محمد حسین بیاضی ali_dlshad2000@yahoo.com 100319475328460013111 100319475328460013111 Yes epartment of Community & Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran