PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Relative Risk, Blood Pressure, Necrosis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Mark Coates

Document Summary

At present, the major contributing factors to illness and death in this country are psychological and behavioural (psychophysiological). This shift in focus from infectious disease to psychological factors has been called the second revolution in public health. Two elds of study have been developed: behavioural medicine: knowledge derived from the behavioural science is applied to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of medical problems. Interdisciplinary: health psychology: study psychological factors that are important to the promotion and maintenance of health, while analyze and recommend improvements to health-care systems and health policy formation within the discipline of psychology. Examines how biological, social, and psychological factors in uence health and illness. Health psychologists use psychological science to promote health, precent illness, and improve health care systems. Psychological and social factors in uence health and physical problems in two ways: Psychosocial factors (such as negative emotions and stress) disrupt basic biological processes, which may lead to physical disorders and disease.