Nancy Adler has been a pioneer in health psychology, having co-edited the first textbook, Health Psychology - A Hanbook: Theories, Applications, and Challenges of a Psychological Approach to the Health Care System. Nancy also ran one of the first graduate programs in health psychology at the University of California, San Francisco.Adler has investigated why individuals engage in health-damaging behaviors and how their understanding of risk affects their choices. Adler has also studied the impact of socioeconomic status on health. She has also been investigating how social, psychological, and biological factors associated with SES act together to determine the onset and progression of disease.
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