01:830:377 Study Guide - Final Guide: Health System, Predictive Validity, Emor

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:377
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Goals of and topics studied in health psychology. Study of behavior and lifestyle related to physical health and illness through. Field that helps identify ways to effectively promote healthy behavior. Field that studies and promotes effective communication between patients and. Putting seatbelt on every time you get in a car. Eating right with a balanced diet, exercise providers. Field that seeks ways to promote resilience and successful coping when faced with physical illness. Field that elucidates ways external events get under our skin and affect our health. Health psychology strives to enhance health, prevent and treat disease, identify risk factors, improve the health care system, and shape public opinion regarding health issues. Historical origins of health psychology as a discipline. 1900: infectious diseases were leading causes of death - pneumonia, tb, diphtheria. Now: chronic diseases - heart disease, cancer, stroke.