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36 Cards in this Set
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Acute Illness |
Characterized by a sudden onset, with signs and symptoms related to the disease process itself |
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Best Buys |
Actions that should be undertaken immediately to produce accelerated results in terms of lives saved, diseases prevented, and heavy costs avoided |
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Caregiver Burden |
The overall physical, emotional, and financial costs of caregiving |
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Chronic Illness |
Health problem that persists over extended periods and that are often associated with participation and activity limitations (disability) |
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Co-morbidity |
The existence of two or more chronic illness in a person at the same time that are not directly related to each other |
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Disability |
A difficulty in functioning at the body, the personal, or the societal level, in one or more life domains, as experienced by an individual with a health condition in interaction with contextual factors |
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Determinants of Health |
complex interactions between social and economic factors, the physical environment, and individual behaviours that determine health |
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Disease |
A condition that a practitioner views from a pathophysiological modal |
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Health |
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity |
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Health Related Hardiness |
A personality resource characterized by a sense of control, commitment, and challenge |
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Health Related Quality of Life |
The subjective experience of the impact of health status on quality of life |
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Illness |
The human experience of symptoms and suffering. It refers to how the disease is perceived, lived with and responded to by individuals and their families |
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Illness Behaviour |
The varying ways individuals respond to physical symptoms: how they monitor internal states, define and interpret symptoms, make attributions, take remedial actions, use various sources of informal and formal care |
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Illness Trajectory |
A pathway along which the person with an illness progresses |
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Informal Caregiver |
A person who provides care without pay and who usually has personal ties to the care recipient |
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Modifiable Risk Factors |
Factors such as behaviour that can be changed to reduce the risk of developing an illness |
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Morbidity |
Rate of disease |
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Mortality |
Rate of death
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Multimorbidity |
The simultaneous occurrence of several chronic medical conditions in the same person |
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Non modifiable Risk Factors |
Factors such as age that contribute to the development of an illness but cannot be changed |
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Quality of Life |
The degree to which person enjoys the important possibilities of her / his life |
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Self-Efficacy |
The belief that one can successfully execute the behaviour required to produce the desired outcome |
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Self Management |
The daily activities that individuals undertake to keep illness under control, minimize its impact on physical health status and functioning and cope with the psychosocial sequelae of the illness |
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Signs |
Objective manifestations of a condition |
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Symptoms |
Subjective reports of the patient |
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Bio-Psycho-Social Model |
Disability and functioning are viewed as the outcomes of interactions between health conditions and contextual factors |
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Expanded Chronic Care Model |
Supports the important role that the DoH play in influencing the individual, community, and population health |
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Illness Trajectory 9 Phases |
- Pretrajectory - Trajectory Onset - Stable - Unstable - Acute - Crisis - Comeback - Downward - Dying |
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Shifting Perspectives Model |
Illness in the Foreground - individuals focused on the sickness, suffering, loss and burden associated w/ living with a chronic illness Wellness in the Foreground - the person attempts to create consonance between self-identity and identity shaped by disease and between the construction of the illness by others and by life events |
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4 behavioural risk factors considered key contributors to many chronic conditions |
- Tobacco Use - Unhealthy Diet - Insufficient Physical Activity - Harmful Use of Alcohol |
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Medical Model of Disability |
Views disability as directly caused by disease, trauma, or another health condition |
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Social Model of Disability |
Views disability as a socially created problem and not an inherent attribute of an individual |
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Outcome Expectancy |
The individual's belief that a specific behaviour will lead to certain outcomes |
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Efficacy Expectancy |
The individual's belief that she or he is able to achieve the outcome |
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4 Primary Influences that Shape a Person's Self-Efficacy Beliefs |
- Mastery - Vicarious Experience - Verbal Persuasion & Other Social Influences - Physiological and Affective States |
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3 Characteristics of Hardy People |
- Control = belief that the individual can influence the events in his/her experience - Commitment = an ability to feel deeply committed to the activities of life - Challenge = the anticipation of change |
