PSYC 3100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Medicalization, Psych, Facial Cleft

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Kieran O' Doherty

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Lecture 14: health communication: what is health communication intended to improve health status of individuals or populations interpersonal: 2 people talking, organizational: through companies/incentives, mass communication: society as a whole, medium: face to face, pamphlets, posters. 8: model criticism, health-care professionals (hcp) patient communication. 11: often community based advocates and empowering the community, see examples in text for case studies, canadian indigenous youth/teachers involved in making health literacy videos, participants (cid:858)de(cid:448)eloped a (cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:272)al (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess a(cid:271)out community, culture, confidence, and control. Lecture 15: screening and immunization: risk, key concept in medicine, health promotion, psychology, engineering, finance, screening and immunization, genetic risk risk communication, complex construct, probabilistic, moralistic. Looking at the genetic likelihood of passing the gene to children: reproductive decision that is making could benefit from the test, or, no genetic risks in family but phenotypic abnormality but don"t know. Lecture 17 & 18: risk communication: statistical innumeracy.