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What is health psychology
Educational scientific and professional contributions of the discipline of psychology
promotion of maintenance of health, preventiona and treatment of illness, identification of etiology (things that contribut to condition) and diagnostic correlations of health, illness and related dysfunction, improvement of the health care system and health policy infomration
it is concerned with biology psychlogy and social contexts and the influence of health and illness
Health psycholigy as biopsychosocial
Relationships between the body mind and social which we need all of them and if any are disturbed than there is a negative impact
the 3 are biological which is often associated with relationship of disease and bodily health
social as interpersonal factors like social interactions and community activities
psychological - as aspects of mental and emotional wellness that also relate to behaviours
psychological - as aspects of mental and emotional wellness that also relate to behaviours
Interactions among the Big Three Biopsychosocial factors
Social to biological - isolation imbalanced lifestyle and stress
social to psychological - motivation , good mental state , stress
biological to psychological - health conditions, illness , stress
all of these result in physical and mental health
Hierarchy of natural systems
Understand that the person fits into the middle of a hierarchy of systems things above you like families communities societies and things below you like systems organs tissues cells
Foundations of health psychology
Behavioral psychology - conditions (rewards/punishments) how it influences our behvaiors like think pavlov
cognitive psychology - what we belive in and how it influences our behaviors
Social psycology - how we interact with others will influence our behaviors like cameras or people
these make up foundations of health psychology
Goals of Health Psychology goal 1 and how is it done
Goal 1 - Promote health and prevent illness at the level of both individual and the population, done by trying to understand the bidirectional relationship between the mind and the body, which influences everything like stress hormone levels, immune systems and cortisol - the mind-body connection where health psychology recognizes that psychological states can significantly impact physical health and vice versa
what is the mind body connection
understanding how mental and emotional health impacts psycial health and vice versa like brain health to nutrition, anxiety to insomnia, mood to exercise and the interaction between them all
Goal 2 of health physologu and how is it done
study psychological aspects that inform development, prevention, management and treatment of illness
- allows us to develop explanatory models for behaviors and their relationships with outcomes
behaviour change interventions (BCIs are coordinated sets of activities designed to change specified behavior patterns which are fundamental for health physch
What is health promotion
process of enabling people to increse control over and improve their health
Ottawa Charter Strategies
1986 health for all by the 2000s
Strategies
Advocate - boost the factors which encourage health - use as a major resource for quality of life, bunch of factors that can affect and make health favorable by advocation
Enable - allow all people to achive health equity - equal opportunities and resources
mediate - collaborate acorss all sectors - coordinate action by givernment, economic sectors volunatry organizations and media
Ottawa charter key action areas
Build healthy public policy - health should be on the agenda of policy makers in all sectors and at all levels - accept responsibilities to health legislation organizational etc…
- Create supportive enviroments - take care of eachother our communities and natural envorments
Strengthen community actions - communities shuold be empowered to set priorities make decisions plan strategies and implement them to achive better health
Develop personal skills - people shoul dbe provided with options to exercise more control over their health and their enviroments
Reorient health services - the responsibility for health promotion in health services is shared amoung individuals community groups health professionals health servies institutions and givernments
Health promotion logo
Incorporates the 5 key action areas and the 3 strategies
visualizations that health is a comprehensive multistrategy approach in an integrated manner essential for effectiveness
health only archives when it’s integrated and coherent
Meanings of health WHO
State of complete physical mental social wellbeingnot merely absense of disease or infimity
complete means exhaustive not perfect meaning it contains all the features ot some degree like appetiser dinner dessert
physical mental and social is considered the holistic thing of health
What does WHO also state health is
One of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race political belif economic or social condition (health for all)
Fundamental to the attainment of peace and security and is dependent on the fullest co-operation of indviduals and their nation
Henry e sigerist
Said healthy person is well balanced bodily mentally
Well adjusted to physical and social envoroment and in control of their physcial and mental state
can adapt to enviromental change
contribute to the welfare of society so not just absense of disease
positive attitude towards life cheerful acceptabel of resposibilities of life
How does the Ottawa charter define health
A resource for everyday life not the objective of living
a positive concept that emphasizes social and personal resources as well as physical capacities
reach a state of complete physcial mental and social wellbeing an individual or group must be able to identify and realize aspirations to satisfy needs and to change or cope with the enviroment
health is complex multifaceted and important
what are the determinants of health according to charter
they are the fundamental conditions and resources for health including
Peace
shealter
education
food
income
stable ecosystem
sustainable resources
social justic
equity
Other ones include
social support networks
working conditions
personal health practises
coping skills
genetic endowment
access to health services
literacy
gender
culture
race
age
WHy is it important to understand health (health lit)
Access understand appriase and use information in ways that will promote and maintain health, more tan just accessing inforation but also ability to think about health and interact with it
What is WHO def of health lit
represents the personal knowledge and competencies that accumulate through daily activities social interactions and across generations
also shaped by a range of other sociatal factors including information providers and givernments
Imroving health literacy provides foundation on which citizens are able to play an active role in improving own health
engage succesfully and equip community action for health and hold government accountabel for addressing health and health equity
Indicators of Health - mortality what does it indicate (2)
General - number of deaths nationwide and porovides info on leading cause of death
Infant mortality - number of infants who die before the first birthday and indicates 2 things - the first is the current health status of the poopulatiopn
and second the state of maternal health and quality of primary care availible to pregnant women and infants
Cause specific mortality - what is the issue with it
The mortability rate from a specified cause for a population compares health status acorss reguions and track changes over time
Doesnt account for age which disease occurs ie measals affects children and cardiovascular usually affect older populations
secondly doesnt account for suffering or quality of life from non fatal disease so we need to think beyond just death rates
Malignant neoplasm disease of heart COVID and accidents lead causes of death
Life expectancy
the average number of years a newborn would be expected to live if current death rates were to remain constant
closely tied to mortability declines in mortability result in an increse in life expectancy
it is very susceptible to infant mortality and also does not reflect the quality of life or wellbeing
Social capital and 3 dimensions
The value derives from positive connections between people communities institutions and nations its very difficult to measure so we use proxy measures which are cose enough measures like attitudes of trust behaviors and also thorugh social distress high distress means low social capictal
DimensionsL
Social ties - interconnected networks fo relationships between individuals and groups
- levels of trust that charecterise these ties ie how much do you trust them
- Resources of benefits that are gained transferred by these social ties - what am i gaining from it protection saftery vent etc
Well being and the adaptive outcomes
sense of individual vitality
ability to do meaningful and engaing activities which make one feel competent and autonomous
having enough resources to be resillient in adverse circumstances ability to be resiitent through setbacks
Outcomes
- sustained healthy behaviors
- incresed social connectedness ie wellbeing to social capital
- higher productivity
- better self-regulation and coping abilities
- healthier immune systems so biological effects
- longer lives