Question

what is the psychology foundation of health?

Answer 1

Ans) Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly.

- Health psychology is a relatively new discipline, emerging in the context of a challenge to traditional biomedical models of illness. These include the health belief model, the health locus of control model, the theory of planned behaviour, and the transtheoretical theory of behaviour change.