PY1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Health Promotion, Xerostomia, Catecholamine
14 Jun 2018
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What is Health Psychology?
And what do Health Psychologists do?
What is Health
• What does being healthy mean?
o Physiological / physical
• E.g having energy
o Psychological
• happy, energetic
o Behavioural
• Eat, sleep properly
o Future consequences
• Living longer
o The absence
• Not sick, no disease, no symptoms
• Health is a multi-dimensional concept
Ill - Health
'What does it mean to be sick?'
• Dimension used to conceptualise ill-health
o Not feeling normal
• 'I do’t feel right'
o Specific symptoms
• Physiological / psychological
o Specific illness
• Eg cancer, depression, flu
o Consequences of illness
• 'I can do what I usually do'
o Time line
• How long symptoms last
o The absence of health
• Not being healthy
• Illness is a multi-dimensional concept
WHO Definition
Health: a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease of infirmity (WHO, 1948)
• WHO definition challenges the 'biomedical' position is the absence of disease
What is Health Psychology
• Focus on understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they
become ill and how they respond when they get ill (Taylor, 2003)
• Main goals of HP:
o The promotion and maintenance of health
o Improving healthcare systems and health policy
o The prevention and treatment of illness
o The causes of illness (e.g vulnerability / risk factors)
Theoretical and Practice Framework for Health Psychology
• Understanding the interaction between biological, psychological and social factors
• Including psychology into an understanding of health
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o Causes and consequences
Biopsychosocial Model
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What do HP's do?
• Individual level
o Assess factors across all three domains to provide an integrated and comprehensive
understanding of patient / client
• Clinical Interviewing skills
o Empathise and develop rapport
o Gather relevant information
o Adjust in relation to process issues and patient characteristics
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
o Collaborative style
• Community level
o Program development and implementation
• Health promotion / public health level
• Inform Policy
• TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HP DOES WE NEED TO FIRST UNDERSTAND WHAT CONTRIBUTES TO
HEALTH
Social Determinants of Health
• The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health
system. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at
global, national and local levels (WHO, 2012)
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Systemic disadvantage
People of low socio-economic status are more likely to
• Suffer disability
• Have serious chronic illnesses
• Suffer recent illnesses
• Report being only in fair/poor health
• Smoke
• Be overweight
• Be inactive
Biopsychosocial Model
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What is stress?
As a stimulus
• Stress is a result of external environment; the event is stressful
• Life Events Theory: Life Hassles
As a transaction
• Stress is a result of internal state of being: the person is stressful
• Life Events Theory: Life Hassles
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Document Summary
Health: a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity (who, 1948) Who definition challenges the "biomedical" position is the absence of disease. Focus on understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill and how they respond when they get ill (taylor, 2003) The causes of illness (e. g vulnerability / risk factors) Understanding the interaction between biological, psychological and social factors. Assess factors across all three domains to provide an integrated and comprehensive understanding of patient / client. Adjust in relation to process issues and patient characteristics. To understand what hp does we need to first understand what contributes to. The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels (who, 2012) People of low socio-economic status are more likely to.
