PY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Eating Disorder, Safe Sex, Bulimia Nervosa

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 101
• Professor: Natalie Dautovich

Document Summary

According to the traditional medical model, people are passive recipients of disease and medical treatments designed to return them to health after illness. Health psychology is an area of study that integrates research on health and on psychology. Well-being is a positive state in which we feel our best. To reach this state, we need to strive for optimal health and life satisfaction. Incorporates multiple perspectives for understanding and improving health. Views health and illness as the product of a combination of factors including biological characteristics and social conditions . Individual"s thoughts, behaviors, and actions are central to understanding and improving health. Behavior contributes to the leading causes of death. People are most likely to die from causes that stem from their own behaviors. Heart disease and accidents are both leading causes of death in adults and can both have their likelihood of occurrence reduced by making better choices.