PSY333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Health Belief Model, Health Promotion, Adipose Tissue
Document Summary
Four main points in health psychology: focus on health promotion and maintenance, prevention and treatment of illness, etiology and correlates of health, illness and dysfunction, analyze and improve the health care system. Health promotion: process enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health. Good health is a personal and collective achievement: we each have our own goals of well-being. An introduction to health behaviours: role of behavioural factors in disease and disorder. Decrease in prevalence of acute, infectious disorders (i. e. tb: treatment innovations and public health standards, have allowed us to outlive infectious disease. Increase in preventable disorders (i. e. cardiovascular disease, alcohol and drug abuse, lung cancer) All have risk factors that are preventable: clear role of behavioural factors in disease. 1/2 of all deaths in canada are caused by modifiable behaviours (smoking, poor diet, physical inactivity) Health behaviours are behaviours undertaken by people to enhance or maintain their health.
