Health: Chapter 1

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Heath

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 realitive incidence of disease

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Mortality

Back 4

The proportion of deaths to population

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Activities of daily livings (ADLs)

Back 5

Tasks of everyday living, such as bathing and walking up and down stairs

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Mental health

Back 6

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

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Heath disparities

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

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Heath promotion

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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

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Behaviors that increase susceptibility to negative health outcomes

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Disease prevention

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Actions or behaviors designed to keep people from getting sick

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Primary Prevention

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Actions designed to stop problems before they start

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Secondary Prevention (Intervention)

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Intervention early in the development of a health problem

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Tertiary Prevention

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Treatment and/or rehabilitation efforts

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Incidence

Back 14

the number of new cases

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Prevalence

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The number of existing cases

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Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES)

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

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Healthy life expectancy

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

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Cultural competency

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A set of congruent attitudes and policies that come together in a system of among individuals and enables effective work in cross-cultural situations.

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Women's Health Intitiative (WHI)

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National study of post-menopausal women conducted in conjunction with the NIH mandate for equal research priorities for women's health issues

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Self Efficacy

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Belief in one's ability to perform a task successfully

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Personal control

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Belief that one's own internal resources allow one to control a situation

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Belief

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

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Attitude

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

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Health Belief Model (HBM)

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Model for explaining how beliefs may influence behaviors.

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Theory of Reasoned Action

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Model for explaining the importance of our intentions in determining behaviors

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Shaping

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

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Imagined rehearsal

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

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Modeling

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Learning specific behaviors by watching others perform them.

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Situational Inducement

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

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Positive reinforcement

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Presenting something positive following a behavior that is being reinforced

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Self-talk

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

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What are the 5 health components?

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emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and physical