- Promotion and maintenance of health
- Avoidance, diagnosis, and treatment of illness
- Improvement of health care provision
- Focuses on areas of health where mental processes are involved e.g. sleep, stress, drug misuse, how people cope with life threatening illnesses, and mental disorders
- Biological approach – addiction, tolerance
- How drugs act and understanding their effects
- Social, cognitive, and learning approaches
- Understanding what makes healthy/unhealthy behaviour
- Promoting good health
Seeks to understand behaviours that can cause good/bad health and how it affects society