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What is Healthy People 2010?
Document that serves as a road map for improving the health of all people in the United States for the first decade of the twenty-first century.
What is health?
State of complete physical, mental and social well-being. Vary among different age-groups, genders, races and cultures.
What is Health Beliefs?
Person's ideas, convictions, and attitudes about health and illness. May be based on factual information or misinformation, common sense or myths. Influence health behavior.
What is Health Behavior?
Activities related to maintaining, attaining or regaining good health and preventing illness. Immunizations, good sleep, nutrition, smotking, drug abuse, refusal to take meds.
What is Health Belief Model?
Addresses the relationship between a person's beliefs and behaviors. Provides a way of understanding and predicting how clients will behave in relation to their health and how they will comply with health care therapies.
Helps nurses understand factors influencing client's perceptions, beliefs and behavior in order to plan care that will most effectively assist clients in maintaining or restoring health and preventing illness.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
What is the Holistic Health Model?
Nurses consider clients as ultimate experts regarding their own health and respect client's subjective experience as relevant in maintaining health or assisting in healing.
Nurses using the holistic nursing model recognize the natural healing abilities of the body and incorporate complementary and alternative interventions, such as music theraphy to traditional medical use.
Internal variables that affect health?
1.Development
2. Knowledge
3. Perception of function
4. Emotional factors
5. Spiritual factors
External variables that affect health?
1. Family
2. Social and economic variables
3. Cultural backround
What is health promotion?
Activities that motivate people to act positively to reach more stable levels of health.
What is wellness education?
Teaches people how to care for themselves in a healthy way and includes topics such as physical awareness, stress management and self-responsibility.
What is illness prevention?
Activities such as immunization programs that protect clients from actual or potential threats to health. Motivate people to avoid declines in health of functional levels.
Passive strategies of health promotion?
Individuals gain from the activities of others withouth acting themselves - the fluoridation of municipal drinking water.
Active strategies of health promotion?
Individuals are motivated to adopt specific health programs - weight reduction.
What is primary prevention?
True prevention. Precedes disease or dysfunction and is applied to clients cinsidered physically and emotionally healthy. Includes immunizations, physical and nutritional fitness activities.
Includes all health promotion efforts. as well as wellness education activities that focus on maintaining or improving the general health of individuals, families and communitites.
What is secondary prevention?
Focuses on individuals who are experiencing health problems or illness and who are at risk for developing complications or worsening conditions. Activities are directed at diagnosis and prompt intervention, therby reducing severity and enabling the client to return to a normal level of health as early as possible.
Care includes screening and trating early stages of disease to limit disability.
What is tertiary prevention?
Difect of disability is permanent and irreversible. Prevention involves minimizing the effects of long-term disease or disability by interventions directed at preventing complications and deterioration. Care aims to help clients achieve as high a level of functioning as possible, despite the limitations caused by illness. Care is also called preventive care because it involves preventing further disability or reducing functioning.
Rish factors for disease/illness?
Any situation, habit, social or environmental condition, physiological condition, developmental or intellectual condition, or spiritual or other variable that increases the vulnerability of an individual or group to an illness or accident.
Increase the chances that the individual will experience a particular disease or dysfunction.
What is illness?
State in which a person's physical, emotional, intellecutal, social, developmental, or spiritual functioning is diminished or impared compared with previous experience.
What is an acute illness?
Has a short duration an is severe. The symptoms appear abruptly, are intense and often subside after a relatively short period.
What is a chronic illness?
Persists usually longer than 6 months and can also affect functioning in any dimention.
Goal of managing a chronic illness is to reduce the occurrence of symptoms to to improve the tolerance of symptoms.
What is illness behavior?
How people monitor their bodies, define and interpret their symptoms, take remedial actions and use the health care system.
Internal variables influencing illness and illness behavior?
Client's perception of symptoms and the nature of illness.
External variables influencing illness and illness behavior?
Visibility of symptoms, social group, cultural backround, economic variables, accessibility of the health care system and social support.
What is illness behavior?
How people monitor their bodies, define and interpret their symptoms, take remedial actions and use the health care system.
Internal variables influencing illness and illness behavior?
Client's perception of symptoms and the nature of illness.
External variables influencing illness and illness behavior?
Visibility of symptoms, social group, cultural backround, economic variables, accessibility of the health care system and social support.