PSYC 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Frontal Lobe, Sunscreen, Operant Conditioning

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 328
• Professor: Agnes Baerbel Knaeuper

Document Summary

World health organization definition: process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health, it focuses not only on individual behavior but also a wide range of social and environmental interventions. Philosophy: good health is a personal and collective achievement. Some new studies are coming out ( e. g european research journal) , Overall message is that heart disease has an important behavioral component: 55% due to lifestyle factors: smoking, physical activity, diet. Our data suggest that lifestyle practices such as avoidance of smoking, regular physical activity, and optimal dietary practices have the potential to substantially reduce the risk of acute mi in women. Lifestyle factors (not including alcohol) appear to be particularly important as collectively they account for 55% of the par in women and slightly greater among men. Preventable disorders increased drastically after 50 years: nearly 50% of deaths in canada are caused by modifiable behaviours (e. g. , smoking, poor diet, physical inactivity)