1. What is Health Psychology?

Question 1

What is health? (3 keypoints)

Answer 1

Being: feeling well. “sense of well-being”
Having: presence/ absence of symptoms
Doing: capabilities/ disabilities

Question 2

WHO’s definition of health

Answer 2

A state of physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease and infirmity

Question 3

Quality of Life (six different aspects)

Answer 3

1. physical health
2. psychological well-being
3. level of independence (disruption of goals, expectedness of illness)
4. social relationships
5. relation to environment
6. spirituality, religion and personal beliefs

Question 4

Health Antonovski

Answer 4

Health on a illness/wellness continuum

Question 5

Biopsychosocial model

Answer 5

biological: genetics, physiological systems, physical functioning
psychological: cognition, emotion, motivation
social: family, community, culture

Question 6

Focal areas in health psychology

Answer 6

1. Promotion & Maintenance of Health
2. Prevention & Treatment of Illness
3. Identification of Etiologic and Diagnostic Correlates of Disease
4. Improving Health Care System and Health Policy