PSC 126 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tricyclic Antidepressant, Mood Disorder, Monoamine Oxidase
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Lecture 1 introduction to health psychology: health psychology, definition. Health psychology is devoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get ill. Health psychologists both study such issues and develop interventions to help people stay well or recover from illness. World health organization (1948) defined health as a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Etiology (origins or causes of illness) and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction. The health care system and the formulation of health policy: changing causes of mortality between 1900 and 2010. An important factor influencing the rise of health psychology has been the change in illness patterns that has occurred in the united states and other technologically advanced societies in recent decades.
