PSYC 2301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Internal Monologue, Mammography, Prostate Cancer Screening
11 Oct 2012
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Health promotion: good health or wellness is a personal struggle (chocolate or fruit) and collective achievement (as a society what have we chosen). Who defines it as he process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. Different perspectives (individual, medical practitioner etc, you typically have these and they are stuck with you since when you are a child, a medical practitioner may have these beliefs and try to push them on you as well. Media as terms of industry such as a diet pill or ab crunch machine", and it effects how you think about health. Lalonde report: proposed the concept of health field: identified two main health principles: health-care system, prevention of health problems and promotion of good health (lets stay healthy rather than having to treat these problems). This was the first modern government in the western world to realize that our emphasis on a biomedical health care system is wrong.
