Medical psychology for the understanding of health and disease.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 11 Medical psychology for the understanding of health and disease Keywords: medical psychology The medical profession in the past used to from the biomedical point of view of health and disease problems, that the biological indicators to determine the ultimate standard of health and disease. The so-called health, that is, no symptoms, could not find an objective method of measuring which part of the body there is pathological evidence. The so-called diseases, is a biology statistical norm (Norm) can be observed deviations from the body appeared higher than normal chemical and physical changes: such as white blood cell increase to 10’’000 / mm ‘or more, body temperature rises to 38 degrees Celsius and so on, as an important basis for diagnosis. But the concept of health and disease is incomplete, because: 1. Many diseases have no symptoms at an early stage, the general routine check is not easy to detect. There is no evidence of disease in patients previously identified a certain period of time, can not say he was the absence of disease or that his body is healthy. In contrast, most people have dental caries, that is, signs of physical pathology, but they are rarely considered to be sick people. 2. Social group in the disease or not, by race, age, economic status, living conditions,’’with different social systems affect the livelihood of the people’’to judge the different standards of individual health and disease are not the same. 3. Health and illness,’’is also affected by national and cultural background, social ethics and the impact of political and economic system. Some special actions in different historical periods had differing opinions. Some states homosexuality as a mental illness who need specialist psychiatric treatment, for alcoholism, child abuse, loss of moral crimes are considered to be mentally ill and a departure from normal behavior; some countries, dominated by dissident as a mental illness; in the twenties of this