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)

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5

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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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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)