QUESTIONS FROM HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

QUESTIONS FROM HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

1. Medicine suggests that people become ill because they catch bacteria or viruses or develop something
wrong with their bodies. What other factors might influence whether someone becomes ill?
2. Medicine takes responsibility for making people well again. What can the person themselves do about
their own health?
3. Most people know that smoking is bad for them but many continue to smoke. Why might this be?
4. Even after being asked by their doctor, many women do not attend for their regular cervical smear.
What factors might influence their decision not to attend?
5. When ill, some people take to their bed, take time off work and need looking after. For others, illness
simply gets in the way and they try to carry on as usual. Why do people differ in this way?
6. If you took the same symptoms to five different doctors, you might get five different diagnoses and
five different treatments. Why do you think this is?
7. Stress has been linked with a range of health problems. How do you think that stress influences
illness?
8. Some people die from heart attacks, whilst other people recover and have long and happy lives. Once
someone has had a heart attack, what do you think they could do to prevent another one?