Chapter 1 Flashcards
Mastery
The overall condition of a person’s body. Historically, the lack of disease.
Health
The overall condition of optimal health and vitality.
Wellness
What does the WHO consider the 3 components of health to be?
Physical, mental and social wellness
Aspects beyond a person’s control that influence that are non-biological.
Social determinate of health
What determines a person’s wellness?
decisions made about lifestyle
What are the social determinants of health (SDH)?
income, education, job security, working conditions, employment, early childhood development, food security, housing, social exclusion, social network, health services, indigenous status, gender, race, and disability
What SDH shapes overall living conditions, psychological functioning, and available health-related behaviours?
Income
People with more of this SDH tend to generally more healthier.
Education
These two SDC causes increased stress, body pains, and risk of injury.
Unemployment and working conditions
Strong, immediate, and long-lasting experiences that have impacts on health
early childhood development
Access to high quality and an abundant quantity of nutrition.
food security
Increased risked of unclean water, overcrowding and unsafe shelter.
Homelessness
Individuals or groups who are denied opportunities to engage with society
social exclusion
Social support during various life stages
social safety net
Access to high quality medicine, doctors and medical procedures.
health services
This status is negatively affected due to colonization
indigenous status
Discrimination and stigma associated with certain ___ and ___ that leads to a lack of seriousness of problems
gender and race
when certain physical and mental functions are impaired
disability
Conditions that increase a person’s chances of disease or injury
risk factors
Your body’s overall condition including fitness level, mobility, injury, and illnesses.
Physical wellness
Positive intellectual, physical, spiritual, cultural and interpersonal health that reflects thoughts and feelings.
emotional wellness
Challenging your mind
intellectual wellness
develop and maintain satisfying and supportive relationships
interpersonal wellness
Your relationship with your ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, and customs It also includes suspending judgment of others
Cultural wellness
Having a set of guiding beliefs or values that focuses on the positive aspects of life and avoid cynicism, anger and pessimism.
spiritual wellness
The liveability of your surroundings like food supply, degree of violence, and lack of environmental hazards
environmental wellness
Your ability to manage living expenses
financial wellness
Level of happiness of fulfillment from your work .
Occupational wellness
What was the original reason why life expectancy was so low?
Infectious diseases and lack of medication to combat it
what is the current major health threat?
cancer, COVID-19 and heart disease,
How do we control risk of chronic diseases?
lifestyle choices
The Canadian effort to control non-communicable diseases by mitigating risk factors
Integrated Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy
What are the two initiatives of the Integrated Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy?
Health promotion of disease prevention, and decreasing prevalence of childhood obesity
The Integrated Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy 3 objectives?
Healthy eating objective, physical activity objective, and healthy weight objective increased by 20 percent of the proportion of Canadians.
What is the challenge of a diverse population in health?
The general health issues are the same, but people have different genetic predispositions and different cultural behaviours that need to be considered
What are the two dangers of researching health for diverse populations?
Stereotyping by using generic life experiences to classify whole groups, and overgeneralizing by ignoring individual circumstances.
Challenges with health research in gender and sex?
Not considering cultural norms of genders, not researching diverse genders and sexes, treating all symptoms seriously.
What are the challenges with indigenous health?
Increased heart disease, tuberculosis and diabetes, alcohol comsumption, and smoking. Mental health issues from colonialism. Lower physical activity, unemployment, lower income.
What are the challenges of living on reserves?
Lower incomes and living outside main cities mean lack of access to health care.
What are the main health disparities among indigenous populations.
Less income and education, issues accessing health care, poor lifestyles, and discrimination by health care system.
What populations in Canada are more likely to be innappropriately served by the health care system?
diverse sex and genders, indigenous status, lower income, disabilities, living in rural or remote areas, being LGBTQ
Top health issues of university and college students
stress, anxiety, and sleep difficulties
Factors that influence wellness
Health habits, family history, environment, access to health care, and behaviour
the figurative source of responsibility for actions
locus of control
Steps for making a change plan.
- monitor current behaviour
- analyze patterns
- create smart goals
- action plan
- make a personal contract
What does SMART stand for?
S - specific
M - measurable
A - Attainable
R - Realistic
T - time-frame specific
Ways to stick with change
Social influence from others and motivation. Commitment to the goal. Changing techniques and making it easier to do. Stress management. Managing procrastination, rationalizing and blaming.
Saying things to deceive yourself into not doing something
rationalizing
Placing the blame for not following through on change on another person
blaming
The spiral model of change
Precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, termination
The stage of change where you are not aware of the need for change
pre contemplation
When you realize you have a problem, but don’t have a plan to change. Recommended to start finding ways to change
contemplation
Creating a plan to change behaviour
preparation
Modifying your behaviour according to the plan
action
trying to problem solve around lapse and continuing to work on action
maintenance
The you no longer need the plan to stick to the change
termination
