PSY 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Physical Therapy, Health Professional, Health Promotion
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Allied health professional fields such as social work, occupational therapy, dietetics, physical therapy, public health. Public health- research and interventions that have broad goal of improving health and general population. Health promotion: a general philosophy that has idea that good health/wellness is a personal and collective achievement life risk monitor/offset risks. For individual: involves developing a program of good health habits throughout. For medic: teaching people how to have healthy lifestyle and helping people at. Health psych: development of interventions to help practice healthy behaviors and. Community/policy makers: emphasis on health, availability of info and resources. Media and legislation: educating and mandating activities change poor ones chronic. Role of behavioral factors in disease and disorder. In us, there are less acute disorders and increase in preventable disorders/ Preventable disorders are caused by behavioral factors in development e. g. smoking, obesity, drinking. Successful modification of health behaviors have beneficial effects.
