PSYC-1105EL Chapter Notes - Chapter 14.1: Oral Cancer, Pearson Education, Health Canada
19 Mar 2017
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Health psychologists: study both the positive and negative effects that humans" behaviour and decisions have on their health, survival, and well-being. More and more health psychologists are needed as advances in medicine has served to treat people with influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, measles, and other contagious diseases. Now, people are more likely to die from tobacco use, alcohol use, obesity, and inactivity. Smoking causes life-shortening health problems including lung, mouth, and throat cancer; heart disease, and pulmonary diseases such as emphysema. A study indicates that 21% of all deaths in canada over the past decade were due to smoking-related illnesses. The life expectancy of the average smoker is between 7 and 14 years shorter than that of a nonsmoker. Many factors lead young people to smoke including whether family members smoke, whether smoking is common in their culture, personality characteristics, and socioeconomic status.
