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Future of Health Psychology
Health Psychology -- Future Challenges
In Health Psychology, Taylor (2011) notes that in thinking about future challenges to health we must acknowledge that we have made great strides in health-related issues over the past years. In the past decade, life expectancy has risen, death rates have dropped, there have been fewer traffic fatalities and children are missing fewer days of school (2011). All this is great new, but there is still progress to be made and there are some future challenges that are unavoidable.
One unavoidable challenge facing us is the fact that there is a rapid aging population. Taylor (2011) notes that by the year 2021, "we will have the largest elderly cohort ever seen in this and other countries." However, the cohort can go one of two ways: it can be healthy or it can be plagued by illness. Obviously, having a healthy elderly population is the ideal, but in...
Getting older, which often comes along with aches and pains and stress about one's health and future, can lead people to deal with their stressors in a variety of ways. Some may choose to find healthy ways to deal with this stress, while others may choose not-so-healthy ways (for example, drinking too much). There are many different ways that people learn to deal with stress in their lives, but positive stress release could make a huge difference in the way a person ages.
Another problem that we will have to face in the future is the toll that a lack of health care/insurance will have on future generations. Not everyone in the world -- or even in the United States -- has access to adequate health care. Not having adequate health care can…
Reference:
Taylor, Shelley E. (2011). Health psychology. (8th edition). McGraw-Hill.
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