PSY-B - Psychology PSY-B 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Traditional Asian Medicine, Humorism
12 Jan 2017
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Health psychology- subfield of psychology that applies psychological principles and research to the enhancement of health and the treatment and prevention of illness. Health-a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being. Health disparities- preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantages populations. Although men are twice as likely as women to dies of any cause, beginning in middle age women have higher disease and disability rates. 1 million deaths in the us a year are preventable. There are a few main goals to improve the overall health: premature death stages. Patient protection and affordable care act (ppaca) a new federal law aimed at reducing the number of people in the unites states who do not have health insurance, as well as lowering the costs of health care. consumer. When a person became sick they attributed it to bewitchment or possession of an evil spirit.
