PSY-2212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Primary Care Physician, Nephritis, Dementia
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Most individuals normally go to their medical doctors for help with stress. Health psychology: merges psychology, medicine, and public health (apa 1978, division 38: studies etiology (causes) of disease scientifically, promotes health; prevent and treats illness, promotes public health policy and an improved health care system. Comparison of the patterns of death from the 1900"s to now. Causes of death in the 1900"s: mainly caused by pathogens and infectious diseases. 3: stroke, accidents, senility, tuberculosis, coronary heart disease, nephritis, cancer, diphtheria. Causes of death now: coronary heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive. Pulmonary disease: suicide, diabetes, cancer, accidents, pneumonia and influenza, aids, cirrhosis of liver, leading causes of death for 15-34 year olds: a. i. a. ii. a. iii. a. iv. Why the changing patterns of death from the 1900s to now: causes of change: immunizations, water purification, sewage sanitation, food. Preservation, pasteurized milk, and preventive health care: there was a relative decrease in infectious diseases but increase in chronic diseases.
