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KINE 250 Midterm I
Midterm I
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Health Care
Undergraduate 1
05/06/2013

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Healthy People 2020
Definition
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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The Immune System
Definition
A system of biological structures and processes that prevent disease, which include lymphocytes, macrophages, etc
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Viral infections
Definition
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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Bacterial infections
Definition
Single celled organisms, treated by antibiotics. Examples: meningitis, pneumonia, and TB.
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General Adaptation Syndrome
Definition
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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Autonomic Nervous System
Definition
Portion of central nervous system that regulates body functions that a person does not consciously control.
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Sympathetic Nervous System
Definition
Gets you ready for stress
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Parasympathetic Nervous System
Definition
Calms you down
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Cortisol
Definition
Relays more nutrients to be released. Reduces inflammation, negates effects, happens when stress happens
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Acute Stress
Definition
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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Episodic Acute Stress
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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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Chronic Stress
Definition
Man not appear as intense but can linger, can be very damaging to your body.
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Characteristics of Healthy People
Definition
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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Hierarchy of Needs
Definition
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
Definition
1. Mental Health
2. Emotional Health
3. Social Health
4. Spiritual Health
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Mental Health
Definition
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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Emotional Health
Definition
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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Social Health
Definition
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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Spiritual Health
Definition
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?
Definition
Family, social support, community, self-efficacy, personality, life span and maturity
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How do other influence well being?
Definition
Your outlook is determined by social/cultural surroundings
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Self Efficacy
Definition
A person's belief about weather he or she can successfully engage and execute a specific behavior
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Self Esteem
Definition
Refers to one's sense of self-respect or self-worth
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Learned Helplessness
Definition
Responding to situations by giving up because of repeated failures in the past
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Learned Optimism
Definition
Teaching oneself to think positively
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What happens as we age?
Definition
We learn to control emotions
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3 central components of mind/body connection
Definition
Satisfaction with present life, relative presence of positive emotions, relative absence of negative emotions
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Determinants of Health
Definition
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...
Definition
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
Definition
The health belief model, the social cognitive model, the transtheoretical model
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Goal changing
Definition
Key to behavior change success
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REM Sleep
Definition
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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Non-REM Sleep
Definition
A state where you don't have rapid eye movement. Not as deep of a sleep
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Insomnia
Definition
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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Causes of Insomnia
Definition
Stress, disparities in circadian rhythms. Treated by other meds or hypnotics.
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Mood disorders
Definition
Chronic mood disorders affect how you feel eg. persistant sadness
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Dysthymia
Definition
A less severe type of depression is milder, chronic, and harder to diagnose. Often characterized by fatigue or short temper
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Bipolar Disorder
Definition
Altering moods/happy and depression
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Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Definition
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
Definition
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?
Definition
An interaction of multiple factors including biological differences and life events. Many appear to be genetic.
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Anxiety disorders
Definition
Persistent feelings of threat and worry
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General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Definition
Suffers are constant worriers
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Panic Disorders
Definition
Panic attacks, persistant and irrational fear
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OCD
Definition
Indv. who feel compelled to perform rituals over and over again
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PTSD
Definition
Occurs in people who have suffered a tragic or traumatic event. Have flashbacks.
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Causes of anxiety disorders?
Definition
Environment, prior events, biological makeup
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Personality Disorders
Definition
Inflexible patters of thought and beliefs that lead to socially distressing behavior
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Paranoid Personality Disorder
Definition
Insane suspicion of others
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Narcisistic personality disorders
Definition
an exaggerated sense of self impure and self absorption
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Borderline personality disorder
Definition
Impulsiveness and risky behavior
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Schizophrenia
Definition
Affects 1% of US population, alertness of the senses, inability to sort incoming stimuli and make appropriate responses
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