Health And Health Psychology

What is health psychology? Health psychology is a field of psychology that was introduced in the late 1970’s to examine the causes of illnesses and to study ways to promote and maintain health, Also to prevent and treat illness and improve the health care system. Health is define as a positive state of physical, mental, and social well-being that changes in degree over time it’s not simply the absence of injury or disease. There are contributing factors that affect a person health weather its stress, substance abuse, nutrition, exercising and losing weight and even pain can be contributor to your health and how it is affected.

What is stress and how does it affect your health you may ask. Stress as to components one being physical meaning the involving of direct material or bodily challenges. The other component is psychological this involves how individuals perceive circumstances in their lives. The components can be tested in three different ways. One way is stress is seen as a stimulus for example if a person has a demanding job or experience severe pain. Stress is also viewed as a response , this focus on people’s reactions to stressors for example people use the word stress to refer how they are feeling in their state of tension. Third stress can be described as a process, which includes stressors and strains from the other components but also adds the relationship between a person and the environment.

Measuring your stress levels is important to maintain good health. There are three common research methods for measuring stress, physiological arousal, life events measurement, and daily hassle measurement. Physiological arousal typically measures blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, and galvanic skin resp...

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...pain can change due to what pleasure comes from it. But there might be no pleasure at all. Chronic pain may be from experiencing high levels of anger, fear, and sadness. Pain and emotions are linked together and what links them is cognitive process. For the body to bare the pain that as occur, the body tissues that contain chemical substances are released at anytime where an injury seems to have happen.

If you get sick do you can you seek treatment without worrying about the cost? When most people get sick and are in need of treatment their health insurance will cover the cost of their visit to the doctor. Many people are covered under the government insurance program such as medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for low-income people. But they are some people that are not insured at all. So you can basically say these people can’t afford to get sick literally.