PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Breast Cancer Screening, Marc Lalonde, Transtheoretical Model

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2301
• Professor: Tarry Ahuja

Document Summary

Good health or wellness is a personal and collective achievement. Who defines health promotion as: the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. Identified the health care system prevention of health problems and promotion of good health. Patterns of disease have shifted over 70 years. Modifying health behaviours can lead to a 50% reduction in deaths acute disease vs, preventable disease. Reduction in deaths due to lifestyle related disease. Behaviours employed by people to enhance or maintain their health. Health behaviours (good or bad) become health habits with time and exposure. A health habit is a health behaviour that is well established and is performed automatically. May eliminate or prevent poor health habits. Help identify rick factors in this patient population. Ethical issues must be considered when identifying at risk people. May become defensive and disregard risk factors. The main goal for elderly is to improve quality of life.