What is health psychology? Health psychology is a field of psychology introduced in the late 1970s to examine the causes of disease and study ways to promote and maintain health, as well as prevent and treat disease and improve health. health system. Health is defined as a positive state of physical, mental and social well-being, the degree of which changes over time. It is not simply an absence of injury or illness. There are contributing factors that affect a person's health: stress, substance abuse, nutrition, exercise and weight loss, and even pain can contribute to your health and how it is affected . What is stress and how does it affect your health? . The focus is on the components, one being physical, meaning the involvement of direct material or bodily challenges. The other component is psychological and concerns how individuals perceive the circumstances of their lives. Components can be tested in three different ways. Stress is particularly seen as a stimulus, for example if a person has a demanding job or feels severe pain. Stress is also considered a response, with the focus being on people's reactions to stressors. For example, people use the word stress to refer to what they feel in their tense state. The third stress can be described as a process that includes stressors and tensions from the other components, but also adds the relationship between a person and the environment. Measuring your stress level is important for staying healthy. There are three common research methods for measuring stress, physiological arousal, measuring life events, and measuring daily hassles. Physiological arousal typically measures blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, and galvanic reactivity of the skin...... middle of paper ...... pain can change depending on the pleasure that comes from it . But there may be no pleasure. Chronic pain can be caused by high levels of anger, fear and sadness. Pain and emotions are linked together and what connects them is the cognitive process. In order for the body to cope with the pain that occurs, body tissues containing chemicals are released at any time when an injury appears to have occurred. If you get sick, can you get treatment without worrying about the cost? When most people get sick and need treatment, their health insurance covers the cost of their doctor's visit. Many people are covered by the government insurance program such as Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for low-income people. But some people are not insured at all. So basically you can say these people can't afford to literally get sick..