Chapter 1 Flashcards

Mastery

1
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The overall condition of a person’s body. Historically, the lack of disease.

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Health

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The overall condition of optimal health and vitality.

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Wellness

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3
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What does the WHO consider the 3 components of health to be?

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Physical, mental and social wellness

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4
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Aspects beyond a person’s control that influence that are non-biological.

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Social determinate of health

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5
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What determines a person’s wellness?

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decisions made about lifestyle

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What are the social determinants of health (SDH)?

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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

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What SDH shapes overall living conditions, psychological functioning, and available health-related behaviours?

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Income

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People with more of this SDH tend to generally more healthier.

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Education

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9
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These two SDC causes increased stress, body pains, and risk of injury.

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Unemployment and working conditions

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10
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Strong, immediate, and long-lasting experiences that have impacts on health

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early childhood development

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11
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Access to high quality and an abundant quantity of nutrition.

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food security

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12
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Increased risked of unclean water, overcrowding and unsafe shelter.

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Homelessness

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13
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Individuals or groups who are denied opportunities to engage with society

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social exclusion

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14
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Social support during various life stages

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social safety net

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15
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Access to high quality medicine, doctors and medical procedures.

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health services

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16
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This status is negatively affected due to colonization

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indigenous status

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17
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Discrimination and stigma associated with certain ___ and ___ that leads to a lack of seriousness of problems

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gender and race

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18
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when certain physical and mental functions are impaired

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disability

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19
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Conditions that increase a person’s chances of disease or injury

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risk factors

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20
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Your body’s overall condition including fitness level, mobility, injury, and illnesses.

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Physical wellness

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21
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Positive intellectual, physical, spiritual, cultural and interpersonal health that reflects thoughts and feelings.

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emotional wellness

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22
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Challenging your mind

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intellectual wellness

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23
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develop and maintain satisfying and supportive relationships

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interpersonal wellness

24
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Your relationship with your ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, and customs It also includes suspending judgment of others

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Cultural wellness

25
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Having a set of guiding beliefs or values that focuses on the positive aspects of life and avoid cynicism, anger and pessimism.

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spiritual wellness

26
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The liveability of your surroundings like food supply, degree of violence, and lack of environmental hazards

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environmental wellness

27
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Your ability to manage living expenses

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financial wellness

28
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Level of happiness of fulfillment from your work .

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Occupational wellness

29
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What was the original reason why life expectancy was so low?

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Infectious diseases and lack of medication to combat it

30
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what is the current major health threat?

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cancer, COVID-19 and heart disease,

31
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How do we control risk of chronic diseases?

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lifestyle choices

32
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The Canadian effort to control non-communicable diseases by mitigating risk factors

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Integrated Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy

33
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What are the two initiatives of the Integrated Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy?

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Health promotion of disease prevention, and decreasing prevalence of childhood obesity

34
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The Integrated Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy 3 objectives?

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Healthy eating objective, physical activity objective, and healthy weight objective increased by 20 percent of the proportion of Canadians.

35
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What is the challenge of a diverse population in health?

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The general health issues are the same, but people have different genetic predispositions and different cultural behaviours that need to be considered

36
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What are the two dangers of researching health for diverse populations?

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Stereotyping by using generic life experiences to classify whole groups, and overgeneralizing by ignoring individual circumstances.

37
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Challenges with health research in gender and sex?

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Not considering cultural norms of genders, not researching diverse genders and sexes, treating all symptoms seriously.

38
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What are the challenges with indigenous health?

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Increased heart disease, tuberculosis and diabetes, alcohol comsumption, and smoking. Mental health issues from colonialism. Lower physical activity, unemployment, lower income.

39
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What are the challenges of living on reserves?

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Lower incomes and living outside main cities mean lack of access to health care.

40
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What are the main health disparities among indigenous populations.

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Less income and education, issues accessing health care, poor lifestyles, and discrimination by health care system.

41
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What populations in Canada are more likely to be innappropriately served by the health care system?

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diverse sex and genders, indigenous status, lower income, disabilities, living in rural or remote areas, being LGBTQ

42
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Top health issues of university and college students

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stress, anxiety, and sleep difficulties

43
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Factors that influence wellness

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Health habits, family history, environment, access to health care, and behaviour

44
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the figurative source of responsibility for actions

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locus of control

45
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Steps for making a change plan.

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  1. monitor current behaviour
  2. analyze patterns
  3. create smart goals
  4. action plan
  5. make a personal contract
46
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What does SMART stand for?

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S - specific
M - measurable
A - Attainable
R - Realistic
T - time-frame specific

47
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Ways to stick with change

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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.

48
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Saying things to deceive yourself into not doing something

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rationalizing

49
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Placing the blame for not following through on change on another person

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blaming

50
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The spiral model of change

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Precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, termination

51
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The stage of change where you are not aware of the need for change

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pre contemplation

52
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When you realize you have a problem, but don’t have a plan to change. Recommended to start finding ways to change

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contemplation

53
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Creating a plan to change behaviour

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preparation

54
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Modifying your behaviour according to the plan

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action

55
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trying to problem solve around lapse and continuing to work on action

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maintenance

56
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The you no longer need the plan to stick to the change

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termination

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