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| A program of health and disease-prevention goals implemented by the US Department of Health in 10 year intervals. Some of the objectives include: cutting drunk driving deaths, reducing health disparities, longer lives, health equality, dementia, sleep health. |
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| A system of biological structures and processes that prevent disease, which include lymphocytes, macrophages, etc |
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| The smallest known pathogens, incapable of carrying out any life processes of their own. Must inject their DNA to a host cell to live. Examples include the cold, influenza, and hepatits |
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| Single celled organisms, treated by antibiotics. Examples: meningitis, pneumonia, and TB. |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome |
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| Stress levels low: Homeostasis, Stressor triggers crisis and attempts to return to homeostasis. Three stages: alarm stage, resistance phase, and exhaustion phase |
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| Portion of central nervous system that regulates body functions that a person does not consciously control. |
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| Sympathetic Nervous System |
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| Gets you ready for stress |
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| Parasympathetic Nervous System |
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| Relays more nutrients to be released. Reduces inflammation, negates effects, happens when stress happens |
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| Most common, comes from demands/pressure of recent pass and anticipated demands. Disappears quickly without any permanent damage, but very intense. |
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| Regularly reacting with wild, acute stress about one thing or another. Often anxious and reactive. Can cause physical and emotional problems. |
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| Man not appear as intense but can linger, can be very damaging to your body. |
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| Characteristics of Healthy People |
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| Feel good about themselves, confortable with other, control tension and anxiety, meet demands of life, curb hate and guilt, maintain a positive outlook, basic needs must be met |
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1. Support
2. Love
3. Determination
4. Good Habits
5. Strong Will
Failure to reach one of these won't get you to the top level |
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| Four Components of Psychological Health |
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1. Mental Health
2. Emotional Health
3. Social Health
4. Spiritual Health |
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| Thinking/Rational dimension of health. Includes values, attitudes, beliefs. If healthy, perceives life in realistic ways and can adapt to change. |
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| Feeling side of psychological health. Intensified feeling or complex patters of feelings we experience on a daily basis. Usually respond to upsetting events appropriately. |
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| Interactions with others, ability to use social resources, ability to adapt to situations. Socially healthy people have healthy interactions and such. Level of Bonds |
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| Broader than religion. Having a sense of purpose and a feeling of connection to nature |
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| What are factors that influence psychological health? |
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| Family, social support, community, self-efficacy, personality, life span and maturity |
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| How do other influence well being? |
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| Your outlook is determined by social/cultural surroundings |
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| A person's belief about weather he or she can successfully engage and execute a specific behavior |
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| Refers to one's sense of self-respect or self-worth |
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| Responding to situations by giving up because of repeated failures in the past |
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| Teaching oneself to think positively |
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| We learn to control emotions |
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| 3 central components of mind/body connection |
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| Satisfaction with present life, relative presence of positive emotions, relative absence of negative emotions |
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| Personal, Social, Economic, Environmental factors that influence health status. Biology, genetics, behavior, access, environment. |
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| To successfully change a behavior, you need to... |
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| See a change as a process that requires prep, understand the stages, understand it takes time to succeed |
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| The three different types of behavior change |
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| The health belief model, the social cognitive model, the transtheoretical model |
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| Key to behavior change success |
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| Deepest level of sleep, have rapid eye movement. Where you have dreams and regain your energy. Need 7-8 REM sleeps a night. |
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| A state where you don't have rapid eye movement. Not as deep of a sleep |
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| Characterized by difficulty falling asleep, frequently awakened during sleep or early morning sleep. About 50% of Americans experience it at some point |
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| Stress, disparities in circadian rhythms. Treated by other meds or hypnotics. |
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| Chronic mood disorders affect how you feel eg. persistant sadness |
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| A less severe type of depression is milder, chronic, and harder to diagnose. Often characterized by fatigue or short temper |
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| Altering moods/happy and depression |
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| Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) |
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| A type of depression that causes loss of sleep, weight fluctuation, and inability to concentrate due to change of season. |
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| Depression in College Students |
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| Very common since it's the first time being away from home and stress of school can build |
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| What causes mental disorders? |
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| An interaction of multiple factors including biological differences and life events. Many appear to be genetic. |
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| Persistent feelings of threat and worry |
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| General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) |
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| Suffers are constant worriers |
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| Panic attacks, persistant and irrational fear |
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| Indv. who feel compelled to perform rituals over and over again |
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| Occurs in people who have suffered a tragic or traumatic event. Have flashbacks. |
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| Causes of anxiety disorders? |
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| Environment, prior events, biological makeup |
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| Inflexible patters of thought and beliefs that lead to socially distressing behavior |
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| Paranoid Personality Disorder |
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| Insane suspicion of others |
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| Narcisistic personality disorders |
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| an exaggerated sense of self impure and self absorption |
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| Borderline personality disorder |
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| Impulsiveness and risky behavior |
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| Affects 1% of US population, alertness of the senses, inability to sort incoming stimuli and make appropriate responses |
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