Lecture 1 - Introduction to Health Psychology Flashcards
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What is the definition of health psychology?
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- Promotion and maintenance of health
- The prevention and treatment of illness
- The identification of etiologic and diagnostic correlates of health, illness and related dysfunction
- The improvement of the health-care system and
- Health policy formation
2
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What is non-communicable disease pathway?
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- Socio economic, cultural, political and environmental factors
- Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors
- Intermediate risk factors
- NCD
3
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What is an intermediate risk factor?
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Factors that increase the risk of NCD They are often metabolic risk factors e.g. - raised blood pressure - raise blood glucose - overweight obesity
4
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What is a modifiable and non-modifiable risk factor?
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Modifiable: behavioural factors (tobacco use, alcohol abuse, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity)
Non-modifiable: Age, genetics, sex
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In order for Health Psychology to be effective it must do what?
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- social justice orientation
- multi-cultural perspective
- focus on health as well as illness
- emphasis on the individual as a social being living within a social and cultural world
- understanding of the individual as a creator of meanings
- health behaviour is infused with personal, social and cultural meanings
- consideration of factors operating at societal and global levels
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What are areas of specialisation within health psychology?
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Clinical health: (application of psychology to illness assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation) help to recover or self-manage trauma, psychological treatment, how people can cope with diagnosis
Health promotion (prevention of illness and promotion of healthy lifestyles): Working with community members t, distribution of disease and the health needs, public health education programs, what behaviours might be contributing to illness and how they might be changed
Public Health researcher
