Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Coronary Circulation, Meyer Friedman, Coronary Artery Disease

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Matthew Maxwell- Smith

Document Summary

Research has demonstrated that health is affected by social and psychological factors as well as biological ones health affected by behavioral choices people make and lives they lead. People"s health likely to be compromised by chronic disease conditions that develop across many years rather than by contagious diseases those caused by specific infectious agents (such as measles, pneumonia, or tuberculosis) Lifestyle and stress play much larger role in development of chronic diseases than they do in contagious diseases. Today, three leading chronic diseases (heart disease, cancer, and stroke) account for almost 60% of all deaths in us. Psychological and social factors also contribute to many other, less serious maladies, such as headaches, insomnia, backaches, skin disorders, asthma, and ulcers. Traditionally, illness has been thought of as purely biological phenomenon produced by infectious agent or some internal physical breakdown in body. Biopsychosocial model assumes that health is not just attributable to biological processes.