BB H 311 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Psychosomatic Medicine, Public Health, Homeostasis
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What is bbh and what makes it different: puts health into a developmental context*** Changes in paradigm illness and disease examination: earlier was germs/infections cause illness, today behaviors cause illness. Paradigm: the way we conceptualize something and address it, a model biopsychosocial model: biological, psychological, sociological contributions to disease and illness. Health: a complete state of physical, mental and social well being, not merely to absence of disease or infirmity. Health psychology: the educational and scientific contributions of psych to the promotion and maintenance of health, the prevention and treatment of illness, and the identification of causes and correlates of health and illness. (matarazzo, 1980). Early attempt to bring together sociology, psychology, and health. How social wellbeing contributes to health psychological influences on how we stay health/become ill involves: health promotion, prevention and treatment of illness, etiology and correlates of health and illness, health care and health policy.
