PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sun Tanning, Mammography, Transtheoretical Model
9 Oct 2017
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Overview: health habits, theories and models of for health behaviour change, preventable injuries, de ne health behaviours, factors in uencing healthy lifestyle. The difference between health psychology vs. traditional medicine is: Promote the behaviours that will lead to better health. The rst modern canadian government document to concentrate on the promotion of health, and prevention of illness, rather than just treatment of illnesses. He didn"t create the concept of health psychology, he just put it in a good package. He is the rst to introduce to the canadian health care system the notion of promoting health and preventing illnesses. He suggested that the biomedical perspective was wrong, and wasn"t taken seriously at the time. Acute diseases: sudden diseases that will kill you. Patterns of diseases have shifted in the past 70 years because of differences of lifestyles and health behaviours. You can also have bad health behaviours: ex.
