PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Health Promotion, Hypervigilance, Cardiovascular Disease
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*all content belongs to tarry ahuja & where cited in lecture slides* Good health, or wellness = personal & collective achievement. Who defines health promotion as: the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health (1986) Diff perspectives: individual vs. medical practitioner vs. Identified 2 main health principles: healthcare system, prevention of health problems & promotion of good health. 1st modern gov"t document in western world to acknowledge that our emphasis upon biomedical health care system = wrong. Patterns of disease have shifted over 70 yrs: acute diseases vs. preventable diseases, modifying health behaviours can lead to 50% reduction in deaths. Benefits of modifying health behaviours: reduction in deaths due to lifestyle-related diseases, increased longevity (life expectancy, longer disease-free period (quality of life, reduced overall health care costs (~ billion) Risk factors for leading causes of death in canada (*table in lecture slide*: heart disease, cancer, stroke, accidental injuries, chronic lung disease.