KINE 1020 Lecture Notes - Walkability
27 Sep 2013
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Focus primarily on the mental of the individual or community of the environment he/she works in. Health promotion-intervene at the social or individual level to promote health and prevent illness and disease. Clinical health psychologist- intervene at the individual level to treat illness , slow or prevent disease progression and reduce disability or a patient. Study of social, behavioural, cognitive, and emotional factors that influence: maintenance of health, development of illness and disease, corse of illness or disease, patient and family"s response to illness and disease. Having good mental health promote, optimism, happiness, self-worth, self-efficacy, love and intimacy: scoring high in mental health typically means less disease as we age. Social well-being is the ability to function satisfactorily in social roles such as work, family, and recreation. Asses one"s health: mental, emotional, physical, with just 36 questions. 20% of our health is determined by our genes. Medical care contributes to 10% of overall health.
