Psychology 2036A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cardiovascular Disease, Monism, World Health Organization

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Marnie Branfireun

Document Summary

Health policies. (spiritual well-being) botany- the study of plants and plant life were important to the native. Health (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) American and shouthern african cultures health practices. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) to: (cid:1) current concept of determinants of health. (cid:1: egyptian and indian civilizations- maintained public water delivery. Table 1. 1 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1: identify the role of health policy as a determinant of health in three civilizations, describe how religion influenced beliefs about health and. Some people believed that diseases were caused by demons. The haemographic plague- black death struck as the renaissance. Native american and pre-columbian cultures material medica (medicinal properties of plants) (cid:1) illness. (cid:1) (cid:1) which was like a cultural birth due to the shift in health perspective which prompted that illness was not a punishment for evil. It marked a return to the scientific exploration of the human body. (cid:1) (cid:1)