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📋 Summary

Health & Behavior 🏃💚

PSY408 - Health Psychology

Key Terms 📚

  • Health Habits 🔄: Your usual health-related behaviors!
  • Risk Factors ⚠️: Behaviors that increase illness chance!

Types of Health Behavior 🏃

  • Health Behavior 💪: Any activity to stay healthy!
  • Wellness Behavior 😊: Activities to KEEP good health!
  • Symptom-Based Behavior 🤒: What you do when feeling sick!
  • Sick-Role Behavior 🛏️: What you do to GET well after deciding you're sick!

Three Levels of Prevention 🛡️

1. Primary Prevention 🛡️1️⃣

  • Actions to AVOID disease! 🚫🦠
  • Before illness happens! ⬅️🤒
  • Examples: Vaccines 💉, Healthy eating 🥗, Exercise 🏃

2. Secondary Prevention 🛡️2️⃣

  • Find & treat illness EARLY! 🔍
  • Examples: Screening tests 🧪, Check-ups 🏥

3. Tertiary Prevention 🛡️3️⃣

  • Limit damage, prevent disability! 🏥
  • Rehabilitation! 💪

Primary Prevention Methods ✅

  • Genetic Counseling 🧬: Telling people their risk for inherited diseases!
  • Immunization 💉: Vaccines to prevent specific diseases!

Key Takeaways 🔑

  • Your habits affect your health! 🔄💪
  • Prevention has 3 levels! 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣
  • Primary prevention = BEST (stop disease before it starts!) 🛡️✅
  • Vaccines save lives! 💉🛡️