PSYC 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pap Test, Hypervigilance, Health Promotion
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Idea that good health, or wellness, is a personal and collective achievement. Health behaviors : undertaken by people to enhance or maintain their health. Health habit : firmly established and performed automatically without awareness. Primary prevention : taking measures to combat risk factors for illness b4 it has a chance to develop. Getting people to alter their problematic health behaviors. Keeping people from developing poor health habits in the first place. Factors responsible for practicing and changing health behaviors. Health locus of control scale: control vs chance. Access to the health care delivery system. People identified in childhood tend to have better health-related biological profiles as adults. Socialization : influence of parents as both teachers and role models. Teachable moment : better times for modifying health practices. Window of vulnerability : time when students are first exposed to bad habits. Precautions taken up until you are like 45. Benefits : efficient use of health promotion money, diseases can be prevented.
