PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1&15: Hyperthyroidism
6 May 2014
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What is health psychology: devoted to understanding psychological influences and how people stay healthy, why we become ill, and how we respond to illness, study and promote interventions to help people stay well or overcome illness, health who defines as a complete state of physical, mental, and social well, wellness is used as a term referring to optimum state of health, focus on being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, health promotion and maintenance, prevention and treatment of illness, etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction, impact of health institutions on health professionals and peoples behavior, etiology the origin or cause of illness interested in the behaviors and social, health behaviors are modifiable factors, mind body relationship philosophical position questioning whether the mind factors which contribute to health and body operate indistinguishably as a single system or if they act as two separate systems today we believe they work together in a single system.
