For the past fifty years or so war has played an insignificant part in keeping down the population and there has been a considerable increase in the number of the people, but disease and poverty still exercise their baneful sway over the country in spite of the efforts of legislators and philanthropists. The vicious circle which has existed for ages still continues, disease causes poverty and p...

Main results 37 studies met the selection criteria. 26 studies assessed the association between psychological coping and survival from cancer, and 11 studies assessed the association between psychological coping and recurrence of cancer. Follow up periods varied from several months to 15 years. Types of cancers included breast cancer (most common diagnosis), leukaemia, melanoma, and lung and ga...

Perceived control has convincingly been suggested to be a key concept in explaining socioeconomic differences in health. Some empirical evidence exists of a higher prevalence of low control beliefs (such as powerlessness or fatalism) in lower socioeconomic groups and that this is relevant to socioeconomic inequalities in general health. However, a systematic examination of the extent to which p...