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| the state of complete physical, social and spiritual well-being, not simply the absence of illness |
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| having the freedom to choose |
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| having the freedom to choose |
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| a term applied to concepts, systems or methods of health care that assumes that the person should be the target for treatment, not illness |
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| the sum total of objects placed in the natural world by human beings |
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| environmental and social conditions that promote disease, disorder and death |
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| an environment that exposes the population to, and actively promotes, a large number of foods and drinks that have a high percentage of fats |
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| a cultural value that enshrines the personal control and responsibility of the individual |
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| set of pinciples that emphasize the need to balance individual rights and intersts with those of the community as a whole, emphasizes the importance of social institutions in the development of individual meaning and identity |
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| an interdisciplinary filed concerned with the application of psychological knowledge and techniques to health, illness and health care |
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| the study of their association with patterns of disease in populations and environmental, lifestyle and genetic factors. |
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| a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities |
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| disability-adjusted life year (DALY) |
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| the total amount of healthy life lost, to all causes, whether from premature mortality or from some degree of disability during a period of time |
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| global burden of disease (GBD) |
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| the universal totality of economic, social and psychological costs pf disease attributable to both morbidity and mortlity over a fixed interval of time |
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| health and illness have physical, psychosocial and cultural determinants |
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| social representations (SRs) |
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| system of ideas, values and practices specific to a particular community which enables individual to orient themselves in the world and communicate with each other |
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| set of theories that consider how our reality is constructed in everday social interaction |
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| the findings can not be generalized to the world that lies outside the laboratory. |
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| a bias in perception, thinking or principles stemming from membership of a particular ethnic or cultural group |
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