PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Junk Food, Health Promotion, Social Influence
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Theories and models of for health behavior change. Good health, or wellness, is a personal and collective achievement. It"s not that you aren"t sick, but it"s something you can control and improve your overall health. Who defines health promotion as: the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health . Identified two main health principles: the health-care system, prevention of health problems and promotion of good health. First modern government document in the western world to acknowledge that our emphasis upon a biomedical health care system is wrong! Patterns of disease have shifted over 70 years: acute diseases vs. preventable diseases. People used to die from diseases such as malaria, however, now people die from diseases such as obesity, lung cancer, etc . The diseases that used to kill a lot of people were due to lack of knowledge and sanitization.