PSYC-3556EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biofeedback, Epidemiology, Prescription Drug
22 Jan 2018
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Interdisciplinary medical science that includes; psychology, sociology, and medicine. Goals: promote and maintain health, prevent and treat illness. Improve the health care system: correlate data pertaining to health psychology. Humans are seen as complex systems: caused by, biological factors, social and environmental factors, psychosocial factors, cultural factors, responsible for: Individuals are active in their lives; health and wellness. Gender perspective: focus on physiological differences between males and females, breast cancer and prostate cancer, y(cid:373)pto(cid:373)s, i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)ce, society (cid:894)(cid:862)the (cid:373)a(cid:374) cold(cid:863)(cid:895) Epidemiology is the study of infectious and non-infectious disease that is based on physical knowledge. The field of public health is generally concerned with protecting, maintain, and improving the health of the public. They provide services within research, information organization, and promotion of awareness. Anthropologists in the health care field will study how health care delivery is different between cultures focus on functionality. Calling in sick, number of sick days, income. Sociocultural differences include factors relating to: social factors, culture, ethnicity.
