PS285 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Economic Security, Preventive Healthcare, Hypertension
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Making the connection: from the video of determinants of health. People that come from a different country are typically healthier than those from the environment that they are coming into. What is health psychology: concerned with how psychological processes shape: How people respond when they or someone they support becomes ill is to not just avoid diseases, but it is to thrive. All occurs in the context of a person-environment system (we are individuals in an environment: health: so many different de nitions of health. Galen"s theory of humors: a pre-modern understanding of the mind, equilibrium = healthy, the mind impacted wether or not the 4 body connection in health and illness components were in balance (mind, moods, behaviours - interrelationship) Galen"s four temperaments: choleric, melancholic, sanguine, phlegmatic, body -> mind -> body. Humorism and a modern approach to personality type: personality types were determined genetically, 2 different types and slightly altered by the environment.
