Health And Wellness Green Edition Chapter 1

Front 1

health

Back 1

The ever-changing process
of achieving individual potential in
the physical, social, emotional,
mental, spiritual, and environmental
dimensions.

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wellness

Back 2

The achievement of the
highest level of health possible in
each of several dimensions.

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morbidity

Back 3

The relative incidence of
disease.

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mortality

Back 4

The proportion of deaths
to population

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mental health

Back 5

The thinking part of
psychosocial health; includes your
values, attitudes, and beliefs.

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life expectancy

Back 6

The number
of years a newborn can expect to
live in full health, based on current
rates of illness and mortalit

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health disparities

Back 7

Differences in
the incidence, prevalence, mortality,
and burden of diseases and other
health conditions among specific
population groups.

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health promotion

Back 8

Combined educational,
organizational, policy, financial,
and environmental supports to help
people reduce negative health behaviors
and promote positive change.

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risk behaviors

Back 9

Actions that increase
susceptibility to negative health
outcomes.

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sex

Back 10

The biological and physiological
aspects that make an individual male
or female

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gender

Back 11

The socially accepted roles
and attributes of being male or
female.

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incidence

Back 12

The number of new cases

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prevalence

Back 13

he number of existing
cases

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Certified Health Education Specialist
(CHES)

Back 14

Academically trained health
educator who has passed a national
competency examination for prevention
and intervention programming.

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belief

Back 15

Appraisal of the relationship
between some object, action, or idea
and some attribute of that object,
action, or idea.

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attitude

Back 16

Relatively stable set of
beliefs, feelings, and behavioral
tendencies in relation to something
or someone.

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Health Belief Model (HBM)

Back 17

Model
for explaining how beliefs may
influence health behaviors.

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self-efficacy

Back 18

Belief in one’s ability
to perform a task successfully

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locus of control

Back 19

The “location,”
external (outside oneself) or internal
(within oneself), an individual perceives
as the source and underlying
cause of events in his or her life.

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Transtheoretical Model of Health
Behavior Change (Stages of
Change model)

Back 20

Model of behavior
change that identifies six distinct
stages people go through in altering
behavior patterns.

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shaping

Back 21

Using a series of small
steps to gradually achieve a particular
goal

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imagined rehearsal

Back 22

Practicing,
through mental imagery, to become
better able to perform an event in
actuality.

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modeling

Back 23

Learning specific behaviors
by watching others perform them.

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situational inducement

Back 24

Attempt to
influence a behavior through situations
and occasions that are structured to
exert control over that behavior

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positive reinforcement

Back 25

Presenting
something positive following a behavior
that is being reinforced.

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self-talk

Back 26

The customary manner of
thinking and talking to yourself, which
can impact your self-image.