Psychology 2036A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Theory Of Reasoned Action, Passive Smoking, Cardiovascular Disease

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Dr. Yves Bureau

Document Summary

Motor vehicle accidents ae the leading cause of death for people ages 15-25: alcohol is a factor in 45% of these crashes, even though 16-25 year olds make up only 13% of canadian population, they accounted for. Health promotion: strategies intended to maintain or improve the health of larger populations: who defined it as: the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, health. It is difficult to concretely state what health promotion is because it comes in many forms smoking cessation programs to patient education, public awareness campaigns, and political activism. Health promotion strategies like tadd are federal-level programs: very large effectiveness is hard to measure, who also has international-level health promotion strategies, ex. Mega country network: attempts to affect health world-wide by involving the most populous countries. Canada as a worldwide leader in health promotion.