Chapter 2 (Health and Wellness) Vocab Flashcards
Acute Illness
Usually short-term illness where symptoms appear abruptly, are intense, and often subside after a relatively short period
Chronic Illness
Usually lasts longer than 6 months and patients fluctuate between maximal functioning and serious health relapses
Health Beliefs
- A persons ideas, opinions, and attitudes about health and illness.
- Based on facts or misinformation, common sense or myths, good or bad experiences, or reality or false expectations
Health Education
Teaches people how to care for themselves in a healthy way and includes topics such as physical awareness, stress management, and self responsibility
Health Promotion
Behavior motivated by the desire to increase well-being and actualize human health potential
Health Promotion Model
Defines health as a positive, dynamic state, not merely the absence of disease
Holistic Health
the view of a person as a biopsychosocial and spiritual being with the intent to empower patients to engage in their own recovery and assume some responsibility for health maintenance
Illness Prevention
Protects patients from actual or potential threats to health such as obtaining immunizations
Primary Prevention
True prevention of disease
Federally funded water treatment, or immunization programs, restaurant inspections
Illness
a state in which a person’s physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, or spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired compared with previous experience
Illness Behavior
People’s different attitudes and reactions to illness that affect how they monitor their bodies, define and interpret their symptoms, take remedial actions, and use the health care system.
Tertiary Prevention
Focuses on reducing complications of long-term disease and disabilities through treatment and rehabilitation
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
A hierarchic categorization of the basic needs of humans
