PSYCH101 Chapter 14: PSYCH 101 Chapter 14 Health Psychology (Textbook Notes)

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Young people smoking raises serious concerns about health + well-being of them. Cigarette-related illness imposes major societal burned in terms of lost work productivity + health care costs. Textbook: an introduction to psychological science , second canadian edition (krause et al) Health psychologists study the positive and negative effects that humans" behaviour + decisions have on their health, survival, and well-being; our physical + mental well-being = connected to health decisions we make. Rise in tobacco use, alcohol use, obesity, inactivity (2009) linked to unhealthy behaviour. Need for health psychologists increased as premature deaths = attributable to lifestyle factors. 5. 8 mill canadians perform a behaviour that is likely to harm or even kill them. Smoking causes life shortening health problems = lung, mouth, throat cancer, heart disease, emphysema. Life expectancy of average smoker = 7 to 14 years shorter than a nonsmoker. 22. 3% male and 17. 5% females smoke cigarettes (canada)