PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: World Health Organization, Cytopathology, Giovanni Battista Morgagni
8 May 2017
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Health psychology is understanding psychological influence on how people stay healthy why people get ill and how they respond to illness. World health organization (who) defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Health psychologists focus on: health promotion and maintenance, prevention and treatment of illness, etiology and links of health, illness and dysfunction, holistic (universal) approach to health. Phlegmatic: an unemotional and calm disposition (phlegm) Melancholic: sadness: constant flux between temperaments today temperament= psychological disposition. Middle ages: period of supernatural and mysticism beliefs, disease was attributed to evil forces entering the body. Ritualistic torture was employed to rid the body of the evil religion infiltrated medical science and knowledge functions of the physician were absorbed by the priest level of health was associated with degree of faith.
