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Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules)
Module 32
Promoting Health
James A. McCubbin, PhDClemson University
Worth Publishers
Promoting Health
Aerobic Exercise sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness
Depressionscore
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3 Before treatmentevaluation
After treatmentevaluation
No-treatmentgroup
Aerobicexercise
group
Relaxationtreatment
group
Promoting Health Biofeedback
system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state blood pressure muscle tension
Promoting Health Modifying Type A life-style can
reduce recurrence of heart attacks
Percentageof patients
with recurrentheart attacks
(cumulativeaverage)
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Year1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
Life-style modification patients
Control patients
Modifying life-stylereduced recurrent
heart attacks
Promoting Health Social support across the life span
12-14 18-19 25-34 45-54 65-74 15-17 20-24 35-44 55-64 75+ Age in years
100%
90
80
70
60
50
Percentagewith high
support
Life events
Tendency toward
Health Illness
Personal appraisal
Challenge Threat
Personality typeEasy going
NondepressedOptimistic
HostileDepressedPessimistic
Personal habitsNonsmoking
Regular exerciseGood nutrition
SmokingSedentary
Poor nutrition
Level of social support
Close, enduring Lacking
Alternative systems ofmedical practice
Bioelectromagneticapplications
Diet, nutrition,life-style changes
Herbal medicine
Manual healing
Mind-body control
Pharmacological and biological treatments
Subfields of Alternative MedicineHealth care ranging from self-care according to folk principles,to care rendered in an organized health care system based onalternative traditions or practices
The study of how living organisms interact with electromagnetic (EM) fields
The knowledge of how to prevent illness, maintain health, and reverse the effects of chronic disease through dietary or nutritional intervention
Employing plan and plant products from folk medicine traditionsfor pharmacological use
Using touch and manipulation with the hands as a diagnosticand therapeutic tool
Exploring the mind’s capacity to affect the body, based on traditional medical systems that make use of the interconnected-ness of mind and body
Drugs and vaccines not yet accepted by mainstream medicine
Promoting Health
Complementary and Alternative Medicine unproven health care treatments
not taught widely in medical schools, not used in hospitals, and not usually reimbursed by insurance companies
Promoting Health Predictors of mortality
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0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
Men Women
Not smoking Regular exercise Weekly religious attendance
Relativerisk
of dying
Promoting Health Religious Attendance
Promoting Health The religion factor is multi-dimensional
Religiousinvolvement
Healthybehaviors
(less smoking,drinking)
Social support(faith
communities,marriage)
Positiveemotions
(less stress,anxiety)
Better health(less immune systemsuppression, stress
hormones, and suicide)