PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Psychosomatic Medicine, Influenza Vaccine, Genetic Counseling
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Behaviour, (and stress: lecture 17) can influence your health. The way we behave impacts health and how long we will live, but there are components of genetics and the environment too. Different definitions: biomedical model: health is an absence of disease . Only looks at the biological part of disease: continuum of illness to wellness (see figure below) Wellbeing is more than an abscense of illness, there is a continuum of being ill to well. World health organization (who) defines health as complete state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. : note: in our generation, we see health as physical health and mental health. In the past, we did not see mental health as a sickness we saw it as an excuse. In the world, females (81y/o) have a longer life expectancy than males (75y/o) . Why: could be genetics, animals and disease, cultural foods, health care, e. g.
