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| What is the primary goal of wellness? |
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| To be in a state of complete physical, mental, and spiritual well being |
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| What are social determinents of health? |
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| The idea that your social environment and physical environment effects the health choices you make |
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| The discipline that focuses on the health of populations of people |
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| What the two type of public health efforts? |
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| Health promotion and disease prevention |
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| What is Health promotion? |
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| Focus on actions to maintain a current health state or encourage advancement to a higher state of health. |
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| What is disease prevention? |
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| Focus on defensive action to ward off disease and their consequences. |
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| What are primary prevention methods? |
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| efforts designed to inhibit the development of disease. |
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| What are secondary prevention efforts? |
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| Effort to detect disease before it becomes symptomatic. |
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| What are tertiary prevention efforts? |
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| treating people with a disease in order to reduce the problems caused by that disease |
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| What is the stages of change model? |
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model developed in the 1990's by psychologists James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente that has 6 stages to change a behavior.
Precontemplation
Contemplation
Preperation
Action
Maintenence
Termination |
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| What is precontemplation? |
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| Stage where you have no motivation to change a behavior and may not realize you have a problem |
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| You realize you may have a problem behavior and plan to make a change in the near future. |
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| Setting goals and a start date to change a behavior. |
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| Stage in which you are implementing behavior change |
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| You have been maintaining the new behavior for atleast six months and are working to prevent yourself from falling back into old habits |
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| The new behavior has become such apart of your life that you have no temptation to return to the old one |
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It means to set goals that are
S-specific
M-measurable
A-attainable
R-realistic
T-timely |
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| What is the ecological model of health and wellness? |
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| A model that is the framework that addresses the interrelationships between individuals and their environment, taking into account not just individual choices but all factors that influence those choices. |
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| The internal state in which you feel competent to perform a specific task. |
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| The ability to read,understand, and act on health information and the ability to crittically evaluate health information, to understand medical instructions and directions, and to navigate the health care system. |
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| Why is health literacy important? |
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| Without health literacy skills people are at risk for poor health outcomes. |
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| What is the purpose for creating and understanding a family health tree? |
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| Creating a tree can help you to see your family's patterns of health and illness and pinpoint any areas of concern or risk for you. |
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| What are single gene disorders? |
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Definition
| Mutation that occur at one gene that causes a disease or disorder. |
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| What is a chromosomal disorder? |
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| A disorder that is the result of alteration in an entire chromosome. |
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| What is a multifactoral disorder? |
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| Disease caused by the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. |
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| How are genetic disorders treated? |
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| Through dietary modification, Medications, and Environmental adaptations. |
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| What is dietary modification? |
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| The genetic correction through restricting foods, excluding foods, or supplementing nutrients |
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| How are medication used to treat Genetic disorders? |
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Definition
| They can be used to decrease symtoms or prevent serious complications |
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| How do environmental adaptation help treat genetic disorders? |
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| people with certain genetic disorder can avoid environmental factor to deacrease there risk of complications |
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| Alteration in the DNA sequence of a gene |
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| What are mental disorders? |
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| A pattern of behavoir that is associated with distress or disability or with significantly increased risk of suffering, death, pain, disability, or loss of freedom |
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| Disorder that effect ones mood and include major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and bipolar disorder |
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| What are anxiety disorders? |
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Disorders that cause fear and stress
are most associated with panic attacks. |
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| What are panic attacks and what is panic disorder? |
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Clear physiological and psychological experience of apprehension of intense fear in the absence of real danger.
mental disorder characterized by recurrent unexpected panic attacks along with concern about having another attack |
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| Dependence on a substance or a behavior |
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| A psychotic disorder in which a person has disorganized and disordered thinking and perceptions, bizzare ideas, hallucinations, and impaired functioning |
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| What are the warning signs of suicide? |
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Definition
Comments about death and threats to commit suicide.
Increasing social isolation and withdrawl.
Intensified moodiness.
Increase in risk-taking behaviors.
sudden improvement in mood accompanied by such behaviors as giving away possesions |
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| What are the characteristics of mental health? |
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Definition
You have high self esteem.
Realistic and accept imperfection in other and yourself.
You help others.
Have a sense of control over their lives and feel capable of meeting challenges and solving problems.
Demonstrate social competence in their relationships with others and are comfortable with other people and believe they can rely on them.
The are not overwhelmed by fear, love, or anger.
They are optimistic.
They have a capacity for intimacy.
They are creative and appreciate creativity in others.
They take resonable risks.
They bounce back from adversity. |
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| What is the Type A behavior pattern? |
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Definition
individuals that tend to be impulsive, need to get things done quickly, and live their lives on a time schedule.
They are hard driving, achievement oriented, and highly competitive. |
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| What is the Type B behavior pattern? |
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Definition
| less driven and more relaxed. are easygoing and less readily frustrated |
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| What are Type C behavior patterns? |
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| people who have trouble communicating and appear to be very cautious and reserved. |
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| What are Type D behavior patterns? |
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| Individuals appear to have negative emotions and are not very expressive. |
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| Effective style of coping with stress characterized by a tendency to view events as challenges rather than threats, a commitment to meaningful activities, and a sense of being in control. |
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| What is emotional intelligence? |
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| The kind of intelligence that includes an understanding of emotional experience, self-awarness, and sensitivity to others |
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| The tendency to see problems as temporary and specific rather than permanent and general. |
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| The ability to bounce back from adverse events. |
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| What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs? |
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| The idea that once people have fullfilled their needs for survival, safety and security, love and belonging, and achievement and self-esteem, they have opportunities for self exploration and expression that can lead to reach their fullest potential |
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| Feeling of sadness or emptiness or by behaviors such as crying, a loss of interest, or pleasure in activities that previously provided pleasure, fatigue, feeling of worthlessness, and a reduced ability to concentrate. |
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| series of physiological changes that activate body systems providing bursts of energy to deal with a percieved threat or danger. |
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| Stress response is carried out by the autonomic nervous system which has two systems the sympathetic which is responsible for turning on your stress response and the parasympathetic which is responsible for turning it off. |
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| At what age is the brain fully developed? |
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| What percent of college students have considered suicide? |
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| How can exposure to long term stress damage the cardiovascular system? |
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| Stress causes the heart rate and blood pressure to go up when they do not return to normal persons can experience chronic hypertension wich makes blood vessels more susceptable to the development of atherosclorosis which increases the risk of heart attack or stroke. |
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| What are ways of coping with stress? |
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| Improve time managment, Gather social support, Excercise relaxation techniques such as deep breathing,visualization, yoga, and progressive relaxation, recieve biofeedback, and think positive thoughts or affirmations |
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| What are positive thoughts you can write down or say to block negative thoughts? |
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| a person's connection to self, significant others, and the community at large |
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| The practice of writing your feeling, thoughts, breakthroughs, and desires in a personal journal to understand yourself more clearly. |
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| How is spirituality connected to journaling? |
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| Journaling can help build a spiritual life |
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| What can meditation and prayer in combination with medicine decrease? |
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Definition
| Relieves medical problems such as chronic pain, depression, anxiety, insomnia, and premenstrual syndrome |
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| What factors influence happiness? |
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Definition
| positive emotion and pleasure, engagement with family, work, romance, and hobbies, and meaning. |
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| What is service learning? |
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| Form of education that combines academic study with community service |
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| What is hospice and what is its goal? |
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| Concept of care with the goal to improve quality of life in a patients last days by providing palliative care(pain management, comfort, and attention to the person's physical, spiritual, emotional, and social needs.) |
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| What are the symptoms of grief? |
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| feeling of sadness, loneliness, anger, and guilt. |
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| A hormone that increases relaxation and sleepiness, released by the pineal gland during sleep. |
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| What are circadium rythms and what are their functions? |
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An internal daily cycle of waking and sleeping.
Tells the body to fall asleep in the evening and wake up in the morning |
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| What is NREM and what happens at this stage? |
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sleep stage of non rapid eye movement.
A time of reduced brain activity.
stage 1. your heart rate slows and your breathing becomes shallow and rythmic.
Stage2. Your brain activity slows even further and you stop moving.
During stage 3 and 4 your blood pressure drops your heart rate and respiration slow and blood supply to the brain is minimal.
Stage 4 is deep sleep
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| What is REM and what happens at this stage? |
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Sleep stage rapid eye movement.
Breathing and heart rate increase
brain activity becomes more like an awake person.
eyes have noticible movement.
most likely chance of dreams |
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| What is the REM rebound effect? |
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| Increase in length and frequency of REM sleep episodes when a person sleeps for a longer time after a period of sleep deprivation. |
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Definition
| difficulty falling or staying asleep. |
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| frequent irresistable sleep attacks in which a person falls asleep unintentionally |
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| What is nocturnal eating disorder? |
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| parasominia where a person rises from bed and eats and drinks while still asleep |
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| What are the effects of caffeine on sleep? |
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Definition
| Caffeine is a stimulant which disrupts sleep |
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| What are the effects of alchohol on sleep? |
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| Alchol induces sleep and reduces the amount of time it takes to fall asleep but cause a poorer sleep and restlessness later in the night |
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| What are the effects of nicotine on sleep? |
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| Nicotine is a stimulant so it disrupts sleep |
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