PSY 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychosomatic Medicine, Cytopathology, Phlegm
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Understanding health habits leads to interventions. Fundamentals to research and practice in health psychology is the definition of health: a complete state of physical, mental and social well being, not just the absence of disease. Health promotion and maintenance across the lifespan. Good health habits, promote regular exercise, improve diets. E. g. how to manage stress of how to follow treatment regimen. Etiology and correlates of health, illness and dysfunction. Focus on behavioral and social factors that contribute to health illness and dysfunction. E. g. alcohol consumption, not wearing seatbelts and how it. Analyze and attempt to improve health care system and formulation affects them of health policy by: Studying impact of health institutions and professionals on. Health psychology examines the psychology and social factors that lead to enhancement behavior and develop recommendations of health prevention and treatment of illness and evaluation/modification of health policies that influence health care. States of psychological and social factors contribute to health.
