PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Hypercholesterolemia, Health Promotion, Health Belief Model
2 Oct 2012
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Health promotion means being aware both of health habits that pose risks for future disease and of already existing risks such as the vulnerability to breast cancer. Health promotion is a general philosophy that has at its core the idea that good health or wellness, is a personal and collective achievement. 1986- world health organization defined health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health . For the individual, health promotion involves developing a program of good health habits early in life and carrying them through adulthood and old age. For the medical practitioner, it involves teaching people how to best achieve this healthy lifestyle and helping people at risk for particular health problems learn behaviours to offset or monitor these risks. For the psychologist, health promotion involves the development of interventions to help people practice healthy behaviours and change poor ones. Role of behavioural factors in disease and disorder.
