PSY 320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Health Promotion, Biomedical Model, Good And Evil
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Health a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Wellness the balance of physical, mental, and social well-being. Illness arises from a variety of factors: genetic weakness, environmental stressors, early learning experiences/conflicts, current ongoing learning conflicts v, coping efforts. Health psychology is especially needed now because in the past, before the 20th century, people died of acute disorders. Important measurements of health psychology: epidemiology the study of the frequency, distribution, and causes of infectious and ex a. Important for understanding the geography and regionality of disease: morbidity number of cases of a disease that exist at some given point in time a. Important because affects quality of life: mortality the number of deaths due to a particular cause. Health care: huge disparities of access across the us, health psychology is important for health care concerns because a. b. It emphasizes prevention, which reduces overall health care costs in the future.
