PSY333H5 Lecture Notes - Peptic Ulcer, Somatic Nervous System, Biomedical Model
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Health psychology is devoted to understanding the psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get ill. In 1948, the who defined health as a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity . Improving the system to help the society the individual is a part of: develop health policies to govern and guide our health system. Health psychology represents the educational, scientific, and professional contributions of psychology to the 4 points discussed above. In the earliest times: the mind and body were seen as a unit, disease = evil spirits entering the body, treatment = spirits could be exorcised. Stone ages: trephination the thought that evil demons were in the mind of the ill and to cure this we need to drill a hole in their head to let the evil spirits out.
