PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cardiovascular Disease, Problem Solving, Mass Media
8 Dec 2016
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Social factors support from family and friends. People with more and better relationships can affect how susceptive you are to illnesses, your longevity and how quickly you can recover. Identifying the causes and correlates of heath and illness. How to improve healthcare and how to influence and improve health policy. Things that used to kill ppl = infectious diseases. Current major health problems = preventable health problems: heart disease, diabetes, cancer, seen as preventable b/c they are based on our behaviors. Health behaviors - all the actions we undertake to enhance/maintain good health. College students = some of worse in practicing college behaviors. Changing health behaviors: change attitudes to change behaviors; use of persuasion, mass media changes attitudes but limited impact on behaviors. 3 communities and focused on 3 behaviors: smoking, diet, exercise, control, second group mass media campaign, 3rd group media campaign and id ppl with highest risk of heart disease and in person gave information/advice.
