Chapter 1 Flashcards
Is health unchanging?
No
What is a broad scope definition of health?
Free of sickness, good physical shape and wellness
What are the 7 dimensions of health?
1) physical
2) social
3) emotional
4) occupational
5) environmental
6) spiritual
7) financial
How did people define health in the late 1800’s?
Absence of disease
How did people define health in the late 1900’s?
Hygiene
When did the focus shift from treatment to prevention?
1940’s
How is health defined today?
It is a process, transient, and in order to thrive in later years you have to prioritize health in early years
What is health as wellness?
Increasing the quality of your life
Who discovered health as social, mental, occupational, spiritual, and biological?
Dubos
What is a dynamic, multi dimensional process, characterized by adaptability to life situations?
Health
What is defined as achieving higher levels of each dimension of health/wellness?
Wellness
Who defined health as the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease or infirmity?
WHO
Who defined wellness as “a quality of life involving social, emotional, mental, spiritual, and biological fitness on the part of the individual which results from adaptations to the environment“?
Dubos
What are the optimal conditions for successful behaviour change?
1) Educational supports
2) organizational supports
3) environmental supports
4) financial supports
What were some aspects of health promotion in the integrated Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy implemented in 2005?
Supports Canadian healthcare system
Population Health Approach (living and working conditions are addressed)
emphasizes “healthy living targets” (physical activity, nutrition, healthy weight)
sees overall approach is greater than any one element
What type of prevention stops health problems before they start and does the key for public health promotion?
Primary prevention
What type of prevention is early on to reduce symptoms and halt progression?
Secondary prevention
What type of prevention comes last, consisting of treatment and rehabilitation to limit the effects of disease?
Tertiary prevention
What are some benefits of improving your health? Ask yourself: are health and wellness interconnected?
Improved cardiovascular functioning, positive outlook on life, increased fitness, improved environmental sensitivity, enhanced spiritual health, stronger immune system, better sleep, stronger relationships, improved ability to respond to stress, reduced reliance on healthcare system
What influences your health?
1) Biology and genetics
2) individual behavior
3) social and physical environment
4) health services and health disparities
5) policymaking
What consist of an individual’s genetics, ethnicity, age and sex?
A person’s biology
What does an individual’s biology include?
Family history, personal history of illness and injury, biological determinants
What differences in male and females extend into health risks and behaviors?
Biological
What are responses to internal and external conditions?
Behaviours
What are some characteristics of behaviors?
Modifiable determinants, significantly reduce risk of chronic disease
What is responsible for 7/10 deaths in North America?
Chronic disease
What modifiable determinants are responsible for most illness in early death related to chronic disease?
1) Physical activity
2) poor nutrition
3) excessive alcohol consumption
4) Tobacco use
What factors include social relationships, campus, place of worship, social institutions, community, transportation, level of violence in the community, Socio economic status, pollution exposure?
Social factors
What factor to your house includes provider services, accurate information, products, and high association with economics in public policy, all relating to quality healthcare?
Health services and disparities
What are health services in disparities most often a product of?
Socioeconomic differences, inadequate health insurance, geographic location, sexual orientation, Disability, economics, sex and gender
What factor influencing your health consist of public policies and interventions, having powerful effect on the health of individuals and communities?
Policymaking
What does policymaking include?
Campaigns, laws, vaccination programs, public funding for mental health services
What is a motivational techniques that can be used to increase exercise a difference and study show works well?
Goalsetting
What is a technique that can be used to clarify thinking, challenge, target, focus, motivated, set barriers, increase growth and responsibility?
Goalsetting
What did Amira analysis performed on 36 studies looking at goalsetting in sport and exercise report?
Those who sent moderately difficult goals led to greater improvement than goals that were too easy or too difficult
What did the authors of the meta-analysis on goalsetting report the critical factors for success as?
Specifying goals, setting both long and short term goals, allowing the individuals to participate in setting their own goals, making goals public
What is the first step to goalsetting?
Realize different types of goals which include outcome goals, performance goals, and process schools
What are the different types of goals?
1) Outcome goals
2) performance goals
3) process goals
Which type of coal improved performance more quickly than longer-term performance goals and is associated with the lower anxiety, grader self-confidence and improved concentration?
Process goals
What type of goal focusses on behaviours DURING training or competition?
Process goals
Which type of goal me include a client form or technique during lifts or yoga, maintenance of core stability?
Process goals
Which type of goal interprets success as completing a behaviour such as an exercise session?
Process goal
When are process goals particularly effective?
when it is difficult to see regular, measurable performance type improvement such as changes in weight or fitness
What is the format for setting goals?
SMART goals
What do the different letters in SMART goals mean?
S - specific M - measurable A - attainable R - relevant T - time-based
