Psychosocial Stress: Population, Environment, and Quality of LifeThis book provides a short synopsis of major areas of concern like the population explosion, environmental pollution, energy consumption and the resulting energy crisis, poverty, unemployment, famine, the prospect of nuclear, chemical, and bacteriological, and conventional warfare, as well as more every-day phenomena, such as uprooting and rapid social change. The book represents an attempt to compile what is known about some of these and other phenomena into an integrated picture as it relates to man's health, wellbeing and quality of life. |
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Delineation of the problem definitions scope of this document | 11 |
Stimuli generated by population structures and processes | 24 |
high risk groups | 38 |
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