PSY333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Disulfiram, Central Serous Retinopathy, Operant Conditioning
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Health promotion: process enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. Good health is a personal & collective achievement: individual. Develop good health habits early in life and have them continue throughout adulthood: medical practitioner. Teach people how to achieve this lifestyle and help those at risk : psychologist. Development of interventions to help people practice healthy behaviors and change poor ones: community/nation. An introduction to health behaviors: role of beh. Recall from last week patterns of disease changed dramatically over last 70 years. Decrease prevalence of acute, infectious disorders (e. g. , tuberculosis). Increase preventable disorders (i. e. cardiovascular disease, alcohol and drug abuse, lung cancer). Clear role of behavioral factors in disease. What we do contributes to how healthy we are. ~1/2 deaths in canada are caused by modifiable behaviors (smoking, poor diet, physical inactivity ). Health behaviors are behaviors undertaken by people to enhance or maintain their health.
