PSYC 314 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Operant Conditioning, Motivational Interviewing, Progressive Muscle Relaxation
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Health promotion - general philosophy of good health/wellness as a personal and collective achievement. Health promotions is the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health. (who) Involves developing good health habits early and carrying them through adulthood. For physicians involves teaching people how to acheieve healthy lifestyle and helping at risk people learn behaviours to offset those risks. Psychologists --> development of interventions to help practice health behaviours and change bad ones. Lalonde report 1974 first suggested need for health promotion approach. In canada there has been a decreases of acute infectious disorders but an increase in preventable disorders. Smoking, poor diet and pphysical inactivity is the leading social. behavioural risk factors. Cancer deaths can be reduced by 50% by decreasing smoking. etc. Health behaviours - undertaken by people to enhance or maintain health. Health habit - health related behaviour that is firmly established and performed automatically.
