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I shall then examine several psychological concepts related to health. I shall then choose two main areas of health concern and examine the psychological factors relating life style to those concerns.
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In this essay I shall first define what is meant by health psychology and by life style. I shall then examine several psychological concepts related to health. I shall then choose two main areas of health concern and examine the psychological factors relating life style to those concerns. Health psychology, described in Curtis (1996) is a development on from a model of health known as the biomedical model. This model suggests that there are known physical causes of illness, treatments for which are based on physical/medical interventions like medicines or surgery. This model has been criticised as reductionist for ignoring the wider economic and social reasons that illness and disease occurs. Illness is not just a medical issue, and the body is affected by the mind as the mind is affected by the body. The bio psychosocial model, proposed by Engels (1977) seeks to acknowledge all these factors as having an effect...
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