PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Paranoid Schizophrenia, Individualism, French Cuisine
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A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or inirmity. Deiniions of health across cultures: north america. Disease as resuling from a speciic, ideniiable cause (e. g. pathogen), a geneic or developmental abnormality, or physical insult. Root is biological and thus treatment focuses on biological aspects. Lifestyles, aciviies, quality of relaionships, condiions such as poverty. Yin and yang as negaive and posiive energies. Good health = balance and involves body, mind, spirit, and the natural environment. Views from other cultures also suggest deiniions include more than biology. Aggressive spirits, accounts of witchcrat, sorcery, mysical retribuion, sinful violaion of taboos. Shit away from anibioics to various tonics and vitamins to strengthen immune system (this is changing) Longer hospital stays (about double compared to the us) To give ample ime for recuperaion of ones terrain. Less use of anibioic use: now france is much more aggressive about using anitbioics than other.
