HLPR211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychological Testing

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Health Promotion
• Course: HLPR211
• Professor: Knight

Document Summary

Part science - part politics, science: is how we understand threats to health, determine what interventions might work, and evaluate whether the interventions worked. Stays the same when location changes: politics: is how we, as a society, make decisions about what policies/interventions to implement, resource decisions, changes when location changes. Values decisions: public health vs. medical care, medical care. Patient is the individual: diagnose the health of the individual using biomedical sciences, blood, psychological test, samples, testing. Treatment involves individual clinical/pharmaceutical interventions: goal is usually cure or management of disease, there is overlap with the goals, ideally there is a lot of overlap to work together to get the best possible outcomes, public health. Patient is the community: diagnose the health of the community using public health sciences, much broader than medical care. Ex indirectly: feeding your kids dinner (healthy or not: living and working conditions.