Intro to Health Psychology Flashcards
Define health psychology
“the aggregate of the specific educational, scientific and professional contribution of the discipline of psychology to the promotion and maintenance of health, the promotion and treatment of illness and related dysfunction”
Define health
Absence of illness/disease
What does the biomedical model suggest illness is caused by
physical/ chemical processes and imbalances e.g., bacteria, viruses, genetics
How does the biomedical model suggest illness should be cured
changing the physical state of body e.g, antibiotics, vaccination, surgery, gene therapy
What model replaced the biomedical model
the bio-psychosocial model of health
Beyond behavioural choices, health and illness are also influenced by what?
our wider social experiences
What is Haslam (2018)’s public rankings of risk factors
suggests what the public consider as risk factors for ill-health, and the order of importance
What is the most important risk factor for our health (Haslam 2018)
Social support and integration
the more favoured people are socially and economically, the better their ——. Marmot 2010
health
True or False: the biomedical model accounts for observed inequalities
False
True or false: obesity is as much a physiological issue as it is a behavioural one
True
What types of solutions are mostly put forward for obesity
medical solutions i.e. surgery not behaviour change
What percentage of medical research is on behavioural factors i.e. why we dont take our meds
0.5%
How much was the 2014 UK expenditure on medical research
£8.5 Billion
