Health and Health Psychology Flashcards
1
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What is health psychology?
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- Understanding why people stay healthy/unhealthy and their responses/behaviours
- Interdisciplinary
- New field
2
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Whats the focus in health psychology?
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- Promotion and maintenance of health, its factors
- Preventions of illness
3
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Epistemology
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Frequency, distribution and causes of non and infectious diseases
- Why and how
4
Q
What is health?
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- Several definiotions
- Its subjective
- Only absence of illness
- Multidimensional
- A process, it changes all the time
5
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Is health something you have or do?
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- Subjective
- What we do is often directly linked with how we feel
6
Q
What can effect development of health?
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- Predisposing factors
- Triggering factors
- Protective factors
- Motor/catalysts
- Maintaining factors
7
Q
What are health behaviors?
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Behaviors that are generally good, enhance or maintain health
- Health Habits
- Some are bad
- What health psychologists want to modify to the better
8
Q
How do we measure health?
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- Life lenght
- Cause of deaths
- Sickleaves
- Visiting clinics or hospitals
- Questionnares
9
Q
What is the health paradox?
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We live longer, we are less sick but our quality of life declines
- View of health has changed
- Risk of health threats, more time
10
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What factors lead to healthier lifestyle?
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- Demographics
- Age
- Cultural values
- Personal control
- Social Influence
- Personal goals and values
11
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What factors can lead to unhealthy habits?
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- Stress
- Emotions
- Instability of health behaviors
