PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: World Health Organization, Health Psychology, Health Promotion
20 Nov 2015
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Health psych lecture 1 - sept 2 nd. Health psychology is understanding psychological influences on why people get sick, how they stay healthy, and how they react to illness. World health organization (who) define health psychology as: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Health promotion and maintenance (you won"t get sick if i promote health and prevent you from getting sick) Improving the health care system and policy (how can i improve the system so you have better access to health care and information so you don"t get sick?) Over time our views around the mind and body in terms of health has changed. Early cultures believed that mind and body were a unit. Disease arose when evil spirits entered your body. Employed trephination (drilling a hole in one"s head to unleash the spirit) The greeks introduced the humoral theory of illness.
