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Health - ANSWER: ➡ A state of physical, psychological and social well-being.
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Historical Perspective of Health - ANSWER: ➡ Health has previously been viewed as being
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alternately determined by spiritual, physical and psychological processes.
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ex) Trephination--drilled holes into sick people's heads to let evil spirits out
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Traditional Oriental Medicine - ANSWER: ➡ China-- qi: you are in good health when energy
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flow in your body is good (acupuncture, tai chi)
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India-- Ayurveda, doshas j j
Ayurveda - ANSWER: ➡ Oldest known medical system. j j j j j j j j
Idea that human body represents the whole universe in a microcosm.
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Key to health= balance btw microcosmic body and macrocosmic world
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Hippocrates - ANSWER: ➡ Father of modern medicine. j j j j j j j j
Believed you were in good health when your humors were in balance (Humoral Theory)
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Called attention to physiological aspects of health.
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First to argue that disease is a natural phenomenon.
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Humoral Theory - ANSWER: ➡ Hippocrates' theory of health.
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Said we have 4 "humors": Yellow bile, black bile, blood and phlegm.
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Claudius Galen - ANSWER: ➡ Focused on anatomy and drugs.
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Expanded humoral theory with pharmacology. j j j j
,Said 80% of people don't have physical illness, just feel bad.
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--This led to notion of psychological problems affecting health
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Versalius - ANSWER: ➡ Dissected first human body.
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--first anatomical drawings
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Disproved Galen's theories. j j
Descartes - ANSWER: ➡ Mind-body duality j j jj j j
--idea that when body gets sick it has nothing to do with the mind.
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Mind and body are completely separate.
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Leewenhoek - ANSWER: ➡ Discovered microscope. j j j j j j j
First to observe blood cells/structure of muscles-->cellular theory
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Cellular Theory - ANSWER: ➡ idea the disease occurs when cells malfunction or die
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Louis Pasteur - ANSWER: ➡ Showed that sterile solution doesn't produce bacteria.
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**Germ theory--you only get sick b/c of pathogens/germs
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Biomedical Model - ANSWER: ➡ Model of the 1900s. j j j j j j j j j
--Pathogens cause disease, not mind j j j j
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Reductionism - ANSWER: ➡ Belief that disease has one single cause. j j j j j j j j j j j
, Features of the Biomedical Model - ANSWER: ➡ 1) Disease is the result of a pathogen
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2) Reductionism--disease caused by 1 primary factor
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3) Mind-body dualism
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4) Health=the absence of disease
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Problem w/ biomedical model - ANSWER: ➡ Couldn't explain disorders w/ no observable
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physical symptoms
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Modern Era Lifestyle Changes - ANSWER: ➡ 1) Increased life expectancy
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--b/c of safe water & food, decrease in infantile deaths, better sanitation and immunization.
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2) Changes is causes of death from bacterial to behavioral
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--infectious disease-->heart disease/cancer j j
3) Costs of health care
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Psychosomatic Medicine - ANSWER: ➡ Said physical disease is the outcome of a fundamental j j j j j j j j j j j j j j
psychological conflict.
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Led to disease being considered multifactoral.
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Etiology - ANSWER: ➡ Causes or origins of specific diseases
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Goals of Health Psychology - ANSWER: ➡ 1) Study etiology
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2) Promote healthy lifestyles
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3) Prevent and treat illness
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4) Promote public health policy and the improvement of health care system
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Biopsychosocial Perspective - ANSWER: ➡ Idea that biological, psychological and social j j j jj j j j j j j
factors all influence health.
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