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- a relatively new field devoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill and how they respond when they do get ill
- health psychology
- complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being
- health
- origins or causes of illness
- etiology
- patients converts conflict into a symptom via the voluntary nervous system
- conversion hysteria
- health and illness are consequences of the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors
- biopsychosocial model
- illness can be explained by aberrant somatic bodily processes
- biomedical model
- all levels of organization in any entity are linked to each other hierarchically and that change in any one level will effect change in all other levels
- systems theory
- short-term illnesses often the result of viral/bacterial invader and usually amenable to cure
- acute disorders
- slowly developing diseases with which people live for a long time
- chronic illnesses
- study of frequency, distribution and causes of infectious and noninfectious disease
- epidemiology
- number of cases of a disease that exist at some given point in time
- morbidity
- number of deaths due to particular cases
- mortality
- researcher creates two or more conditions that differ from each other in exact and predetermined ways
- experiment
- experiments conducted by health care practitioners to evasluate treatments or interventions and their effectiveness over time
- randomized clinical trials