Chapter 1: Taking Charge Of Your Health Flashcards
What is the old idea of health?
Absence of disease
What is wellness
Optimal health and vitality
Determined by decisions you make about how you live
Continual and dynamic
What is health influenced by
Factors beyond your control
Ex, genes, age, acccess
What are social determinants of health?
factors that influence the health of individuals and groups
What are the 14 social determinants of health?
- Income and income distribution
- Education
- Unemployment and job security
4.Employment and working conditions - Early childhood development
- Food Insecurity
- Housing
- Social exclusion
- Social Network
- Health Services
- Indigenous status
- Gender
- Race
- Disability
What are modifiable risk factors?
Smoking, exercise, diet
What are non-modifiable risk factors
Age and Family History
What is health promotion
Enabling others to control and improve their health
What are the 9 dimensions of wellness?
- Physical
- Emotional
- Intellectual
- Interpersonal
- Cultural
- Financial
- Spiritual
- Environmental
- Occupational
What is physical wellness?
Fitness level & ability to care for yourself
Eating healthy
Practicing safe sex
Getting regular check ups
Recognizing symptoms of disease
Avoiding injury
What is emotional wellness?
Optimism, trust, self confidence and self acceptance
Understanding and accepting of own and others feelings
Can share feelings
Dynamic and fluctuates with intellectual, physical, spiritual, cultural and interpersonal health
What is Intellectual Wellness
Openness to new ideas
Capacity to question and think critically
Lifelong learning
Creativity & curiosity
What is Interpersonal Wellness?
Communication Skills
Capacity for intimacy
Ability to maintain satisfying relationships
Ability to cultivate a support system of friends and family
What is Cultural Wellness
Creating relationships with those different from you
Maintaining and valuing your own cultural identity
Avoiding stereotyping based off race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexual orientation
What is spiritual wellness?
Capacity for love, compassion and forgiveness
Altruism
Caring for others
Sense of meaning and purpose
Sense of belonging to something greater than oneself
What is Environmetal wellness?
Having abundant, clean, natural resources
Maintaining sustainable development
Recycling and reducing pollution and waste
Personal health depends of health of the planet
What is financial wellness?
Having a basic understanding of how money works
Living within ones means
Avoiding debt and saving for the future
What is Occupational Wellness
Enjoying your job
Being valued by your manager
Building satisfying relationships with coworkers
Taking advantages of opportunities to learn and be challenged
Draws on your passion and skills allowing u to feel as if you are contributing
What percent of genes determine variability in life span?
25%
What is health?
State of complete social, physical, and mental wellbeing
Resource for everyday life
T or F: Is there a correlation between genes, behaviour and life expectancy?
True
Ways to increase longevity
No smoking
high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels (good cholesterol)
Education
Good stress coping
Why has life expectancy since 1900 doubled?
Vaccines
Public health initiatives (infectious diseases)
Improved living conditions
Recognition of tobacco as a health hazard
Between 15 -24 what are the leading causes of death?
Accidents
Suicide
Cancer
Homicide
Heart disease
What is the Pan- Canadian Healthy Living Strategy?
Goal to address preventable risk factors and underlying conditions
What are the 2 Pan Canadian Healthy Living Initiatives
Prevention of disease, disability, injury and health promotion
Decreasing childhood obesity
What are the Pan Canadian Healthy living targets?
Want to increase by 20%:
Healthy Eating
Physical activity
Healthy weight
What Issues are causing danger of diverse populations health?
Stereotyping
Talking to people as groups and not individuals
Overgeneralizing
Ignoring diversity (risk factors in certain groups)
What are the Dimensions of Diverse Populations
Sex
Gender
Ethnicity
Income
Education
Disability
Geographic location
Sexual orientation
What is the difference between gender and gender identity?
gender- roles and behaviours in society
Gender identity- pronouns, and self identification
Fart storage in Men verses Women
Women store fat in hips, men store it in abdomen
Which sex has better visual- spacial capacity?
Male
Which sex has a better 1 year survival rate of heart attacks? Why?
Males
Why: women have atypical symptoms (harder to diagnose)
Women also experience heart attacks 10 years later