This special issue highlights the unique potential that health psychology–behavioral medicine has to dramatically contribute to understanding, prevention, and control of the growing prevalence of multimorbidity (i.e., concurrent prevalence of more than 1 chronic health disease or condition in an individual).
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Table of contents
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Introduction
- Multimorbidity in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
Jerry Suls and Paige A. Green
Articles
- Multimorbidity: Implications and Directions for Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
Jerry Suls, Paige A. Green, and Cynthia M. Boyd - The Measurement of Multimorbidity
Kathryn Nicholson, José Almirall, and Martin Fortin - Inflammation in Multimorbidity and Disability: An Integrative Review
Elliot Friedman and Carrie Shorey - Depression and Multimorbidity: Considering Temporal Characteristics of the Associations Between Depression and Multiple Chronic Diseases
Jeffrey L. Birk, Ian M. Kronish, Nathalie Moise, Louise Falzon, Sunmoo Yoon, and Karina W. Davidson - Depressive Symptoms and the Development and Progression of Physical Multimorbidity in a National Cohort of Australian Women
Xiaolin Xu, Gita D. Mishra, and Mark Jones - Exercise in People With Comorbidity or Multimorbidity
Joost Dekker, Bianca M. Buurman, and Marike van der Leeden - Multimorbidity in Randomized Controlled Trials of Behavioral Interventions: A Systematic Review
Carolyn R. T. Stoll, Sonya Izadi, Susan Fowler, Sydney Philpott-Streiff, Paige Green, Jerry Suls, Anke C. Winter, and Graham A. Colditz - Toward a Health-Promoting System for Cancer Survivors: Patient and Provider Multiple Behavior Change
Bonnie Spring, Tammy Stump, Frank Penedo, Angela Fidler Pfammatter, and June K. Robinson
Commentary
- Preventing and Managing Multimorbidity by Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care
Arlene S. Bierman
