Promoting Health and Preventing Illness
Name the three types of illness prevention.
Primary prevention, Secondary prevention, and Tertiary prevention
What types of events are more likely to cause stress?
Negative, unpredictable, uncontrollable, and sometimes vague and undefined.
What is the focus of the Biomedical model?
Disease
What factor would influence a person to ask how likely is it that we will develop this particular problem?
Perceived susceptibility to illness
A school-based program that educates elementary school students about health risks of smoking would be considered ______________.
Primary Prevention
Involves people trying to regulate their emotions so that they can minimize the distress caused by the situation.
Emotion-focused coping
_________ can be completely explained by examining problems in an organisms biological functioning.
Illness
Define self-efficacy.
Our perception of whether or not we actually have what it takes to carry out a behaviour.
A patient undergoing rehabilitation to attempt to recover some of the skills and abilities that he or she lost as a result of a stroke is an example of _____________.
Tertiary Prevention
Define Problem-focused coping.
People deal directly with the problem that has caused them to be stressed.
What did the biomedical model fail to account for?
Individual Differences
Janes father has a heart attack, which convinces her to eat healthy. What is this an example of?
Cues of Action
Getting a mammogram is a ______________ strategy for women.
Secondary Prevention
Your grandmother passes away. Although you cannot change that fact, you can try to manage your emotions, perhaps by reappraising the situation to try to see something positive in it. This is an example of_____________.
Emotion-focused coping.
According to the biopsychosocial model, health is determined by what?
Biological, psychological, and social factors
Name the 7 factors of the Health Belief Model
General health values, Perceived susceptibility to illness, Perceived severity of illness, Expectation of treatment success, Perceived barriers and benefits, Cues to action
________ refers to efforts that are made to encourage people to engage in healthy behaviours, such as eating a healthy and balanced diet, and exercising regularly.
Health promotion
A conflicting situation at work arises, and you resolve it by handling it one step at a time. This is an example of _____________.
Problem-focused coping
Bacteria and viruses
Expectation of treatment success