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URI PSY 255Paiva Midterm
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(L1&2) Health - answer is a state of optimal well-being. That includes
physical, mental, and social well-being
(L1&2) Health Psychology - answer is the field of study focused on
understanding the biological, psychological, and social influences on
health and illness with the aims of promoting health and preventing
illness and improving health care systems and policies
(L1&2) Missions of Healthy Psychology - answer - To promote and
maintain health
- to prevent and treat illness
- to identify the causes of health and illness
- to analyze and improve the health care system
, (L1&2) Biopsychosocial model - answer highlights the role of biological,
psychological, and social processes in health.
- Biological (genetics, risk factors)
- Psychological (education, coping skills)
- Sociological (access to information about treatment and care)
(L1&2) Health Psychology looks at.... - answer how biological,
psychological, and social factors govern health.
(L1&2) Health is... - answer and objective state of being and a subjective
experience
(L1&2) Objective Health - answer assessment of health from observable
measures (infection, pain, heart rate, etc.)
(L1&2) Subjective health - answer how individuals evaluate their own
health status
- measures of health are often not directly tied to one's actual health
status and yet are very predictive of health outcomes and mortality
(L1&2) Health Disparity - answer refers to a higher burden of illness,
injury, disability , or mortality experienced by one group relative to
another
(L1&2) Health Care Disparity - answer refers to differences between
groups in health insurance coverage, access to and use of care, and
quality of care
(L3&4) Health disparities can be related to.. - answer sex (male/female),
race/ethnicity, income, education, sexual orientation, or geography
(L3&4) Rheumatoid arthritis, depression are more common in... - answer
women
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