HSBH1012 Lecture 12: hsbh1012 – w12
20 Jul 2018
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Hsbh1012 introduction to health and health sciences. History of professionals medical/science: hippocrates father of medicine rejected beliefs that supernatural/divine forces caused illness. Evidence-based science: developed notion of humors" physiological conditions and their relation to sickness four humors. Other groups = apothecaries and lay-doctors: key progressions. Professions of psychiatrist, psychologists and councillors created: chemotherapy discovered due to war and use of toxic gas specialisation interconnected practices of all specialist knowledge. Stress: 4 main reasons for stress, when under threat. Experienced/witnessed events that involved actual/threatened death or serious injury to self or others response to the event involved intense fear, helplessness or horror. Domestic violence road accident: persistent re-experiencing or remembering of that trauma, emotional withdrawal/numbness, exaggerated anxiety/ anger. Proportion of australians with high prevalence mental disorders: 6-17 year olds = 11, 16-24 year olds = 26, 25-34 = 25, decision // be proactive.
