The current trend toward cost containment pushes health psychology in the direction of research questions designed to

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All of these answers are correct. Cost containment has led to a focus on developing interventions that are time-limited, symptom-focused, and provided on an outpatient basis to reduce costs. Additionally, health psychology has an interest in keeping patients out of the health care system by preventing illness and promoting healthy behaviors. Finally, lower costs of providing health care services can be achieved through effective psychosocial interventions, and measuring the success of these interventions is important to demonstrate their cost-effectiveness.

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