PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Behavioral Medicine, Psychosomatic Medicine, Middle Ages
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A lot of imes, behaviors can inluence physical health. You, the individual, can do more for your own health and well-being than any doctor, any hospital, and drug, any exoic medical service . From everything you"re informed with growing up, tells you make a lot of choices and decisions that"ll efect your own health. Not everything"s behavior but also geneics and environment as well as many other components. Health is popularly deined in terms of absence of disease, but may be viewed as an illness/wellness coninuum o. Not everybody is completely ill or completely well, there"s things in between. The world health organizaion (who) deines health as a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or inirmity o. In the past mental health may not have been looked on as the same level of physical health. Think about how it translates to actual lives, when someone"s ill, it may lead to death.
