Pyschology Lecture 10

Question 1

What is the Social Ecological Model

Answer 1

A model acknowledging that the individual is influenced by a collection of larger interrlated and cumulative contexts such as organizations communities and governments.

Question 2

What is Epidemiology

Answer 2

study of changing patterns of health and disease across populations and geographic areas

Question 3

what is the index case

Answer 3

the first identified instance of a medical problem

Question 4

what ia pandemic

Answer 4

a large epidemic that occurs on a worldwide basis, crossing international boundaries; usually affecting large numbers of people

Question 5

What is Pre-symptomatic when it comes to COVID

Answer 5

Someone who is confirmed to have the virus but is not yet showing symptoms

Question 6

What someone who is Asymptomatic

Answer 6

someone who has not had the illness confirmed and has no symptoms

Question 7

what is the incubation period

Answer 7

the time between exposure to the virus and the onset of symptomsw

Question 8

whats the reproduction number

Answer 8

the number of people, on average, an infected person ends up infecting

Question 9

What does prevalece mean

Answer 9

the number of cases that have been confirmed or presumed

Question 10

What is point prevalence:

Answer 10

the number of cases present at a particular point in time

Question 11

what is period prevalence

Answer 11

the total number of cases that have occurred over the course of an incident

Question 12

what are current cases

Answer 12

the total number of cases minus those who have recovered or died from the disease

Question 13

What is incidence

Answer 13

the number of new cases that emerge in a given time period

Question 14

What is behavioural activiation

Answer 14

mechanisms focused on positive responses that enhacne resilience in the face of challenge

Question 15

what is secondary control:

Answer 15

a process where we work on the things we can control in liew of the things we cannot

Question 16

What is acceptance based coping

Answer 16

paying attention to how one relates to emotions rather than letting the emotions take charge of ones behaviour

Question 17

Whats gradient of health?

Answer 17

the often found relationship between socioeconomic status and health. health is positively related to wealth
as poverty increases, health status decreases, found in virtually all countries
distribution of wealth is a predictor of the health of a countries citizens.

Question 18

What are social determinants of health

Answer 18

factors such as housing, employment, SES, and food availability affect the health of populations

Question 19

Whats the harm reduction strateg?

Answer 19

attempts to reduce the harmful effects of a behaviour when faced with the reality that health compromising behaviour cannot be eliminated from a population.

Question 20

Harm reduction strategies are what in nature

Answer 20

Non judgemental

Question 21

What are two important psychological factors for Harm reduction strrategies

Answer 21

Trust and Compassion

Question 22

Why does the public not accept harm reduction strategies

Answer 22

because they fail to accept that these strategies do not indicate endorsement of health compromising behaviours, especially those that are illegal.

Question 23

What is efficacy

Answer 23

the extent to which the drug has the potential to yield itsintended outcomes under ideal circumst ances

Question 24

what is effectiveness

Answer 24

a drugs ability to yield intended outcomes under realistic conditions.