PSYC 412 Lecture 1: PSYC 412 ch 1 notes
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Health psychology: a subfield of psychology that applies psychological principles and research to the enhancement of health and the treatment and prevention of illness. Health: physical as well as psychological and social well-being. Health disparities: preventative differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations. Patient protection and affordable care act (ppaca): a federal law aimed at reducing the number of people in the us who do not have health insurance, as well as lowering the cost of health care. Humoral theory: concept of health proposed by hippocrates that considered wellness a state of perfect equilibrium among four basic body fluids called humors. Sickness was believed to be the result of disturbances in the balance of humors. Biomedical model: the dominant view of twentieth-century medicine that maintains that illness always has a physical cause. Health is nothing more than the absence of disease .
