CHEM-C 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Night Terror, Health Promotion
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Complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being. How they respond when they get ill. Etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction. Improvement of health care system and the formulation of health policy. Ex: study the effectiveness of the affordable care act. Prehistory - considered to arise when evil spirits entered the body. Evidence: spiritual rituals done to the body. Ancient greeks - humoral theory of illness: diseases resulted when humors/circulating fluids (four humors) of the body were out of balance. Blood - passionate temperament (if someone is being really passionate, they have too much blood in their system) If you were sick, you deserved it. Renaissance to present day - technical bases of medicine are understood. Focused all about the body, not the mind. Can"t always explain feelings/issues w/ disordered cells and chemical imbalances. Fails to recognize social & psychological processes - assumes mind-body dualism. Emphasizes illness over health rather than focusing on behaviors that promote health.
