PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Colorectal Cancer, Internal Monologue, Periodontitis
16 Jan 2018
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Lecture 4 health behaviour and health promotion. Example: using seatbelts friends remind you to put them on, campaigns reminding you to wear them. Specific actions to treat an illness and reverse the problem. Ex: arthritis patient doing exercises to control their pain and reduce amount of disability. Importance of primary prevention: more than 50% of premature death in western countries can be attributed to lifestyle, colon cancer (high fat diet), lung cancer (smoking), heart disease, accidental injury (not wearing helmet) Problems in promoting wellness: factors within the individual: wellness can be an uphill battle that"s less appealing, doing the healthy alternative is the lease appealing option. (salad vs. chicken wings, there is little incentive to change the behaviour. Therefore, there is more value in matching intervention to the proper stage. Grandma smokes her whole life and never got lung cancer .
