Health Psych 1 Flashcards
4 areas of focus in HP
- health promotion and maintenance
- prevention/treatment of ilness
- etiology and correlations of health, illness, and dysfunction
- improving healthcare system and formulating health policy
healthcare model that focuses on the system, fundamental assumption: health and illness are consequences of interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors
biopsychosocial model
healthcare model focus on illness,[dom for past 300 yrs] illness can be explained on basis of aberrant somatic processes/ psychological and social processes independent of disease
biomedical model
limitations include being a single factor model; mind body dualism; emphasis on illness over health; reductionism
biomedical model limitations
illness reduced to microlevel processes, such as chemical imbalances
reductionism
____ model shortcoming is that it cannot account for why all ppl with same somatic conditions develop disease/instead need to focus on interaction of multiple pathways
biomedical model shortcoming
advantages of biopsychosocial model
- microlevel processes
- macrolevel
- multiple factors
- mind and body canot be distinguished in matters of health and illness
- emphasis on both health and illness
clinical implications of the biopsychosocial model
- process of diagnosis/ recommendations for treatment must consider interaction of bio,psycho,and social factors
- relationship btwn patient and health care practitioner is important in the efectivness of care
summary of which model: health habits can be understood only within the patient’s psychological and social text.
biopsychosocial model
“The interdisciplinary field concerned with the
development and integration of behavioral and
biomedical science knowledge and techniques
relevant to health and illness and the application of
this knowledge and these techniques to prevention,
diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation”
behavioral medicine
The field of medicine that searches for psychological
or emotional causes for illness.
psychosomatic medicine
“was established to facilitate collaboration among psychologists and other health science and health care professionals interested in the psychological and behavioral aspects of physical and mental health”
division 38 of the APA mission statement
- Short-term medical illnesses
* Examples: tuberculosis, pneumonia
acute disorders
- Slow-developing diseases
- Often these cannot be cured, only managed
- Psychological/Social factors are often causes
chronice disorders
between ages 1- ___ yrs :
– #1 cause of death is accidents (40%)
– #2 cause of death is cancer (especially
leukemia)
15
aged 15 to __, death due to
– #1 unintentional injury (car accidents)
– #2 homicide
– #3 suicide
– #4 cancer
– Heart disease and AIDs account for the bulk of the
remaining mortality
24
young adults ages 18- ___
30
middle age: 30- __
60
young old adults: 61- __
85
old old
85+
elderly typically die of degenerative diseases:
– Cancer
– Stroke
– Heart failure
– General physical decline