Ch 1- Shaping your Health Flashcards
The 7 factors that your health impacts
- Education/career
- Socialize with friends and family
- Chance to travel (Business, relaxation, adventure)
- Meet and connect with new people
- conceive and/or parent children
- hobbies and recreational activities
- live independently
Life Span
Max number of years humans are capable of living
Life Expectancy
Average number of years members of a cohort can expect to live
Life Course
Path people follow through life
Lifestyle
Personalized version of the life course of a cohort can expect to live
Life Fable
“story” of a person’s life, as written and directed by that person
Health Promotion
anything that helps people improve their health status; a movement in which knowledge, practices, and values are transmitted to people for use in lengthening their lives, reducing the incidence of illness, and feeling Better (ex. eat healthy, exercise, good relationships)
Wellness key thing to remember
we each have our own personal full potential. we are not all held the the same fitness standards
Wellness
The unlocking of our full potential through the development of an overall wellness lifestyle (even with chronic illness or limitations) NO COMPARISONS
School Health Education
OLDEST SETTING (of the ways you could educate others about health) coordinated school health programs (food served, programs, health options for staff)
Community/public Health Education
PUBLIC (GOVERNMENT/TAX FUNDED) National, state, county, and city programs
also includes non government funded Voluntary Health Agencies
Work sight Health Education
AKA Work sight Wellness, employee, wellness, etc. (offering flu shots, smoking cessation classes, etc.)
Health Care/Clinical Health Education
Health educator will discuss all the options/ processes of doing something
Healthcare will tell you that you need to do this or that and refer you to a health educator to discuss the details
Health Literacy
You never know what information you wish you could understand
Obtain, interprete, and understand basic health information and services
use such information and services in ways that enhance health
4 COMPONENTS OF A HEALTH LITERATE PERSON
Critical thinker/problem solver
responsible productive citizen
self-directed learner
an effective communicator
Critical thinker/problem solver
- Examine health problems
- formulate ways to solve these problems
- able to find valid reliable information
Responsible, productive citizen
Feel obligated to keep their community, healthful safe, and secure
Self-directed learner
Recognize the need to gather and use health information throughout their life
Effective communicator
-Organize and convey beliefs, ideas, and information about health through a variety of methods
(writing things down/bringing another person ways to communicate well with health professionals
World Health organization (1947)
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity