Health Psychology

what are the main goals of health psychology?

• To Prevent Illness

• To Promote Good Health

• To Improve the Health care system and health policy

• To Help a Person Individually

Health Psychology is the study of

What is the Role of Health Psychologist in today's scenerio?

Name three healty food?

• pizza-cake-nuts
• vegetables-fruits-bread
• cookies-grains-fish
• eggs-cola-water

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Health psychology is a field of study devoted to understanding physiological influences on why people get ill, how the respond to ill, and why people stay healthy.

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Health is define a complete state of physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.

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The biomedical model emphasizes illness rather health than focusing on the behaviors that promotes health.

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The fundamental assumptions of the biopsychosocial model is that health and illness are consequences of dynamic interplay of biological, psychological and sociological

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What factors have fueled the growing field of health psychology?

• Expanding the field of healthcare.

• The biomedical model which has dominated field of medicine.

• Increase in the chronic and lifestyle related diseases.

Health psychologists perform variety tasks, including the development of worksite interventions related to the improvement of employee's health habit.

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