PS374 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Hedonic Treadmill, Serving Size, Learned Helplessness

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Midterm: feb14, chapters 2, 3, 4, 8, 16 (p. 445-452), definitions, short answer, long answer intervention related question. Observation that stressors of life can affect physical health. Promotion vs. prevention: health promotion: efforts made to encourage people to engage in healthy behaviours. E. g. , balanced diet, regular exercise, getting enough rest, refraining from smoking and abusing alcohol. Usually directed toward general public: e. g. , body break, program called participaction, prevention: efforts to reduce probability of contracting an illness (primary) or reducing severity of illness (secondary) Primary: aimed toward healthy individuals so as to keep them healthy and avoid their risk of contracting diseases (e. g. , target people at increased risk for type 2 diabetes) Secondary: goal is to prevent the condition people already have from leading to more severe health consequences (e. g. , target lifestyle habits of people with. Promoting health literacy: use of skills to critically analyze and apply health i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) to o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s life.

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