Humanities & Social Sciences

What do you want to do exactly? Social work or social entrepreneurship? If you want to do social work the best institute is TISS. It offers MA social work and admission is based on entrance exam announcement for entrance happens in around October and admission process starts by April next year. Alternate option is Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai and recently started MSW in Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies, University of Mumbai, Kalina campus. Admission here too through a written test and not tough as this is recently started. If you are planning MBA in Social Entrepreneurship, then you may either opt TISS 2 years full time MA social Entrepreneurship or NMIMS 2 years MBA in Social Entrepreneurship in part time mode. Admission is through written test and currently over.

Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, chronically occurring environmental stressors affecting the hypothalamicpituitaryadrenal axis, cumulatively, can harm health. Behavioral factors can also affect a person's health. For example, certain behaviors can, over time, harm (smoking, excessive alcohol consumption) or enhance health (exercise, diet low in saturated fat). Health psychologists take a biopsychosocial approach. In other words, health psychologists understand health to be the product not only of biological processes (e.g., a virus, tumor, etc.) but also of psychological (e.g., thoughts and beliefs), behavioral (e.g., habits), and social processes (e.g., socioeconomic status and ethnicity).