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HPsych-Chapter3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| health promotion | a general philosophy maintaining that health is a personal and collective achievement; the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health; trying to get people to do the right thing and avoid doing the wrong things |
| health promotion and psychologists | develop interventions to help people practice healthy behavior and change poor ones |
| health promotion and the individual | developing a program of good health habits and carrying them through adulthood and old age |
| health promotion and the medical practitioner | teaching people how to achieve a healthy lifestyle and helping people at risk for particular health problems offset or monitor those risks |