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| What are the dimensions of wellness? Describe them. |
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Definition
Physical Health - Bodily health
Intellectual Health - Willingness to take on new challenges, an openness to new ideas and skills, capacity to think critically and good sense of humor and curiosity
Psychological Health - Encompasses autonomy, self acceptance, and ability to respond to our enviroment along with our relationships nurtured with others
Spiritual Health - Beliefs and values we hold and ways we express them
Social Health - Quality of our interractions and relationshops with others
Enviromental Health - The quality of our home work school and social enviroments as well as health of our planet
Occupational Health - Describes the quality of your relationship to your work |
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Term
| Difference between acute and chronic illness? |
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Definition
Acute - illness that comes on quickly and intensely and then quickly resolves
Chronic - Illnesses that become noticeable gradually over longs periods of months or years, may get worse as time goes on |
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Term
| Definition of morbidity and mortality |
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Definition
Morbidity - Refers to the clinical term meaning illness used when talking about the prevalence of a disease within a population
Mortality - means death but specfically used when talking about the number of deaths in a population due to a certain cause |
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Term
| Top five causes of death in US among different age groups? |
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Definition
All Ages - Heart Disease, Cancer, Chronic Lower respiratory disease, stroke, accidents/unintentional injuries
15-24 year olds - Accidents/unintentional injuries, assault/homicide, suicide, cancer, heart disease
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| What are the determinants of health? What do they mean? |
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Definition
Biology and genetics - age, sex, genetics, race/ethnicity, health history, family history
Individual Behaviors - individual lifestyle choices
Social Determinants - social status in society
Physical Determinants - Physical conditions in the enviroment
Health Services - Healthcare infrastructure where you live
Policy Making - How the governments policies affect healthcare |
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Term
| What factors influence behavior change? |
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Definition
Predisposing Factors - Current things that shape current behavior such as physical mental emotional and environmental factors.
Enabling Factors - skills assets capacities and resources you have to help make lasting changes
Reinforcing factors - include encouragements and rewards that promote positive behavior change |
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Term
| What are the different models of behavior change? |
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Definition
Transtheoretical Model
Health Belief Model
Ecological Models |
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Term
| Transtheoretical Model major points? (the six states of change) |
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Definition
| Precontemplation > Contemplation > Preparation > Action > Maintenance > Termination |
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Term
| The health belief model major points? |
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Definition
| perceived threat > perceived severity > Perceived benefit > Cues to action |
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Term
| What does SMART stand for? |
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Definition
| Specific > Measureable > Attainable > Relevant > Time Based |
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Term
| What are some techniques to prevent lapses or relapses? |
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Definition
1 - separate the behavior from the cue
2 - taking action to avoid or eliminate the cue
3 - changing the environment or other circumstances surrounding the cue |
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Term
| What is psychological health and what are its components? |
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Definition
| Psychological health can be defined as the dimension of health that encompasses both mental and emotional components. |
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Term
| How can optimism/pessimism affect your health? |
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Definition
| Optimism lets people live longer, less likely to get sick with minor illnesses such as flu and major illnesses such as cancer. Pessimism can lead to physical health problems such as diabetes. |
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Term
| What role does spiritual health play in ones life? |
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Definition
| It contributes to psychological health by providing a sense of connection to a larger purpose coupled with a system of core values that provide direction and meaning in life. |
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Term
| What difference is there between a mental and mood disorder? |
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Definition
| A mental disorder is a long term disruption in thoughts and feelings that reduce an individuals ability to function in daily life. Mood disorders are chronic pervasive emotional states that alter the persons thoughts behavior and normal functioning. |
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Term
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Definition
| irrational fear that is disabling |
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Term
| Different types of mental health professionals? |
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Definition
Counselors - have a degree in counseling and focus on talk therapy
Psychologists - Have a doctoral degree and provide talk therapy
Psychiatrists - have a medical degree and focus on medical aspects of psychological issues, they can prescribe medication. |
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Term
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Definition
| Stress is the collective psychobiological state develops in response to a disruptive unexpected or exciting stimulus. |
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Term
| Different types of stress? |
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Definition
Eustress - State resulting from positive stressors (first date, winning lottery)
Distress - stress from negative stressors (failing exam, losing wallet) |
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Term
| Difference between homeostasis and allostasis? |
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Definition
Homeostasis is a physiologic ability to maintain the bodys internal conditions within a normal healthy range
Allostasis - The short term adaptive processes that help the body deal with challenges of stress |
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Term
| What are the phases of the General adaptation syndrome? |
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Definition
Alarm - fight or flight mechanism
Resistance - body becomes more resistant to stressor
Exhaustion - body goes into allostasis to deal with it in short term or it overloads and has allostatic overload (exhaustion, burnout) |
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Term
| What does chronic stress do to your health? |
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Definition
| Weight, Weakened immune system, headaches, migraines, inadequate sleep, compromise mental health |
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Term
| what influences our stress response? |
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Definition
personality type
sociocultural factors
past experiences |
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Term
| technique's to deal with stress? |
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Definition
| counseling, medications, biofeedback, acupuncture, personal choices, restful sleep, improve test taking skills, loosen tight muscles, explore tension relievers |
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