PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: World Health Organization, United States Public Health Service, Biopsychosocial Model

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

You, the individual, can do more for your own health and well-being than any doctor, Health is popularly deined in terms of absence of disease, but may be viewed as an illness/wellness coninuum. Who (world health organizaion) deines health as a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or inirmity . Free health care helps contribute to prevenion of diseases. Inverse correlaion: amount spent on health care & life expectancy. Death rates (1900s & 1990s): cures found for certain diseases leading to decrease over ime of death, decrease in parasiic diseases. Chronic disorders acute condiions = short-lived: eiology - beyond individual control chronic condiions = long-lasing, eiology - partly inluenced by behavior. Health behaviours (aciviies to prevent or detect disease) Esimated coninuaions of behaviour, medical care, geneics, and other factors to health status (pie graph)