PSYC 3100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Health Promotion, Neoliberalism, Biopsychosocial Model
10 Jan 2016
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Contrasting approaches to health psychology d. marks. To make sense of health psychology (hp): must understand it in the context of social, political and economic forces. Also described in context of how freedom, responsibility and power enter into the generation of conflicts. Discuss the interplay of commercial and state interests in academic and health research settings. Four evolving approaches to hp: clinica, public, community and critical health. University worker aim to maximise output in value-free knowledge products. Now there is super-specialization, funded by external sources. Psychosocial processes have an enormous influence in health and illness (h+i) and health care. Unelected financiers and industrialists are orchestrating the globalisation process; unequal distribution of wealth/power is one of the root causes of war, violence and suffering ( unequal supply of education and health care) World trade center: operation enduring freedom , air raids on the. Psychological operations had begun in afghanistan using radio propaganda on the population (protests began against the bombings)
