Resumo

TEIXEIRA, José A. Carvalho  e  CORREIA, Ana Rita. Fragilidade social e psicologia da saúde: um exemplo de influências do contexto sobre a saúde. Aná. Psicológica [online]. 2002, vol.20, n.3, pp.359-365. ISSN 0870-8231.

In this paper, from the health psychology point of view, the author characterizes social weakness as a health risk situation, through the socio-economic status, gender differences, cultural diversity and stress exposition influences. An health psychology point of view, oriented to prevention and health promotion, involves stress reduction in individuals on social weakness, complementary to rehabilitation and social insertion mesures.

Palavras-chave : Social weakness; stress; health psychology.

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