American Academy of Health Behavior - "The mission of the American Academy of Health Behavior is to serve as the “research home” for health behavior scholars and researchers whose primary commitment is to excellence in research and the application of research to practice to improve the public's health."

American Psychological Association Division 38 Health Psychology - "The Division of Health Psychology is focused on: advancing contributions of the psychology discipline toward understanding health and illness through basic and clinical research and by encouraging the integration of biomedical information about health and illness with current psychological knowledge; promoting education and services in the psychology of health and illness; and informing the psychological and biomedical community, as well as the general public, on the results of current research and service activities in this area."

American Psychological Association Center for Psychology and Health - "The APA Center for Psychology and Health collaborates with the American Psychological Association Practice Organization to provide a coordinated way forward to secure psychology's role in the overall improvement of health and health care in the United States. The center aims to implement one of the major goals of the APA Strategic Plan — to expand psychology's role in advancing health. There is growing recognition that the ever-increasing rise in our nation's health care costs — now 18.2 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product — is due mostly to the treatment of serious, chronic health conditions. These conditions are largely due to unhealthy behaviors such as poor diet, inadequate exercise and substance use. As experts in human behavior, psychologists have much to offer to improve public health and bend the steep cost curve."

Briefing Series on the Role of Psychology in Health Care - "Psychology, as the science of behavior, has much to offer to enhance health promotion and disease prevention and address health disparities. Based on scientific evidence, this health briefing series focuses on a wide range of health conditions to further highlight psychology’s vital roles, including and beyond assessment and treatment, in primary care and other health care settings. This health briefing series is collaboratively developed with APA’s Interdivisional Healthcare Committee, a coalition of health-oriented divisions within the association."

Australian Psychological Society Health psychology - "Health psychologists have knowledge and skills in the following areas: Developing and evaluating interventions that can enhance health and wellbeing, including treatments that can help people to cope with illness or associated problems (e.g., facilitating friends and family to help with recovery); Understanding how psychological and behavioural factors interact with the physical systems of the body and social factors to influence health and illness; Quantifying the extent and type of health problems experienced by various groups in Australia; Understanding the way that people behave or the underlying attitudes that put their health at risk and how they might change these behaviours to prevent illness and promote health; Identifying and treating the psychological impact of illness."

British Psychological Society Division of Health Psychology - "The Society and its members develop, promote and apply psychology for the public good. We enhance the efficiency and usefulness of psychologists by setting high standards of professional education and knowledge. We cover all areas of psychological research and practice."

Center for Health and Wellbeing Princeton University - "The Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) fosters research and teaching on the multiple aspects of health and wellbeing in both developed and developing countries. The center’s goals are to understand the determinants of health and wellbeing and the role that public policy plays in shaping the quality of people’s lives, and to educate undergraduates and graduate students who aspire to careers in health and health policy."

Center for the Advancement of Well-Being - "The mission of the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being (CWB) is to catalyze human well-being by promoting the science and practices that lead to a life of vitality, purpose, and resilience. As an interdisciplinary teaching and research center at George Mason University, we are dedicated to helping individuals and organizations thrive in a world of complexity and uncertainty."

Health Psychology and Rehabilitation - "The Health Psychology web site contains information and viewpoints about the interaction of psychological and medical conditions (or psychomedical disorders). This includes information about psychological difficulties that can be caused by medical conditions, as well as psychological factors which can complicate or delay recovery from medical conditions. This information may have implications for the fields of: Clinical health psychology, Occupational medicine, Occupational and physical therapy, Pain management, Rehabilitation, Risk management, Wellness programs."

Health Psychology Arena - "The Health Psychology Arena provides researchers, instructors and students in Health Psychology with information on the range of books and journals by Psychology Press, Routledge Mental Health and Guilford Press, as well as links to various online resources, including societies and associations, forthcoming conferences, and support groups."

Healthy People 2010 - strona sponsorowana przez rzÄ…d Stanów Zjednoczonych – “Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to: Encourage collaborations across communities and sectors, Empower individuals toward making informed health decisions, Measure the impact of prevention activities.”

European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) - "The European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) is a professional organisation formed to promote empirical and theoretical research in and applications of health psychology within Europe as well as the interchange of information related to heath psychology with other associations throughout the world towards an international achievement of these aims."

International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) - "Members of the society espouse a variety of theoretical and methodological viewpoints. However, as with other critical psychologists, they share a common dissatisfaction with the positivist assumptions of much of mainstream psychology and its ignorance of broader social and political issues. Instead, they share an interest in various critical ideas (e.g. social constructionism, post-modernism, feminism, marxism, etc.) and various qualitative and participatory methods of research (e.g. discourse analysis, grounded theory, action research, ethnography, etc.) and their relevance to understanding health and illness. Further, they share an awareness of the social, political and cultural dimensions of health and illness (e.g. poverty, racism, sexism, political oppression, etc.) and an active commitment to reducing human suffering and promoting improved quality of life, especially among those sections of society most in need."

International Association of Applied Psychology - Psychologia zdrowia – dywizja 8 – “The International Association of Applied Psychology is the oldest international association of psychologists. Its official languages are English and French. Founded in 1920, it now has more than 1.500 members from more than 80 countries. Its mission is succinctly stated in Article 1 of its Constitution: "...to promote the science and practice of applied psychology and to facilitate interaction and communication about applied psychology around the world."