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Exam 2 Flashcards

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Illness characterized by symptoms that are relatively short duration, are usually severe, and affect the functioning of the patient on all dimensions

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Acute illness

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Activities that depend on the patients motivation to adopt a specific health program

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Active strategies of health promotion

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Illness that persists over a long time and affects physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and spiritual functioning

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Chronic illness

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Dynamic state in which individuals adapt to their internal and external environments so there is a state of physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and spiritual well-being

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Health

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Conceptual framework that describes a persons health behavior as an expression of his or her health beliefs

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Health belief model

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Activities such as routine exercise and good nutrition that help patient s maintain or enhance their present level of health and reduce their risk of developing certain diseases

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Health promotion

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(1) Abnormal process in which any aspect of a person’s functioning is diminished or impaired compared with his or her previous condition
(2) The personal, interpersonal, cultural reaction to disease

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Illness

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Ways in which people monitor their bodies, define and interpret their symptoms, take remedial actions, and use the health care system

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Illness behavior

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Health education programs or activities directed toward protecting patients from threats or potential threats to health and minimizing risk factors

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Illness prevention

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Activities that involve the patient as the recipient of actions by health care professionals

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Passive strategies of health promotion

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First contact in a given episode of illness that leads to a decision regarding a course of action to prevent worsening of the health problem

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Primary prevention

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Any internal or external variable that makes a person or group more vulnerable to illness or an unhealthily event

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Risk factor

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Level of preventive medicine that focuses on early diagnosis, use of referral services, and rapid initiation of treatment to stop progress of disease processes

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Secondary prevention

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Activities directed toward rehabilitation rather than diagnosis and treatment

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Tertiary prevention

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Dynamic state of health in which an individual progresses toward a higher level of functioning, achieving an optimum balance between internal and external environments

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Wellness

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Different attitudes that causes people to react in different ways to illness or to the illness of a family member.

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Illness behavior

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A theoretical way of understanding a concept or idea

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A model

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Can positively or negatively affect health

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Health behaviors

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May be based on factual information or misinformation, common sense or myths, or reality or false expectations.

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Health beliefs

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Activities related to maintaining, or regaining good health and preventing illness

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Positive health behaviors

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Examples of positive health behaviors

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  • immunizations
  • proper sleep patterns
  • adequate exercise
  • stress management
  • nutrition
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Practices actually or potentially harmful to health

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Negative health behaviors

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Examples of negative health behaviors

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  • smoking
  • drug or alcohol abuse
  • poor diet
  • refusal to to necessary medicine
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What is the first component in the health behavior model?

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The first component is individuals perception of susceptibility to illness

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What is the second component to the health behaviors model?

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The second component is an individual’s perception of the seriousness of an illness

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What is the third component to the health behavior model?

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The third component is the likelihood that a person will take preventative action

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What are the areas of focus for the health promotion model?

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  • individual characteristics and experience
  • behavior, specific knowledge,and affect
  • behavioral outcomes
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A model used to understand interrelationships of basic human needs

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Maslows hierarchy of needs

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The highest expression of ones individual potential and allows for continual discovery of self

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Self-actualization

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Recognizes the natural healing ability of the body and incorporate complementary and alternative interventions

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The holistic health model

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Include a person’s developmental stage, intellectual background, perception of functioning, and emotional and spiritual factors

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Internal variable

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What do cognitive abilities shape?

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The way a person thinks, including the ability to understand factors involved in illness and apply knowledge of health and illness to personal health practice

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This concept is central to nursing practice and more important in today’s hectic healthcare environment

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Caring

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a mental self ­image of strengths and weaknesses in all aspects of personality

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self-concept

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Change in body image from extreme trauma usually occurs in the following phases:

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  • anxiety
  • shock
  • denial
  • anger
  • withdrawal
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What do behavioral and emotional depend on?

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the nature of the illness, the patient’s

attitude toward it, the reaction of others to it, and the variables of illness behavior

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​persists, usually longer than 6 months, is irreversible, and affects functioning in one or more systems

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chronic illness

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​is usually reversible, has a short duration, and is often severe

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acute illness

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a state in which a person’s physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, or spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired

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illness

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Health behavior changes involve movement through a series of stages (Transtheoretical model)

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the stages are:

  • precontemplation ­
  • contemplation ­
  • preparation ­
  • action ­
  • maintenance stage ­
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no intention to change

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precontemplation

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considering change within the next 6 months

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contemplation

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making small changes

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preparation

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actively engaging in strategies to change behavior

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action

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maintaining the changed behavior

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maintenance stage

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any situation, habit, social or environmental condition, or physiological condition, spiritual condition, or other variable that increases the vulnerability of an individual or group to an illness or accident

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risk factor

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includes specific protection such as immunization for influenza and hearing protection in occupational settings.

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primary prevention

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includes diagnosis and prompt intervention

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secondary prevention

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○ minimizing the effects of long term disease or disability by interventions directed at preventing complications and deterioration
○ rehabilitation rather than diagnosis and treatment
○ called preventive care because it involves preventing further disability or reduced functioning

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tertiary prevention

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individuals are motivated to adopt specific health programs such as weight reduction and smoking cessation

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active strategies of health promotion

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​individuals gain from the activities of others without acting themselves which include public fluoridation of water and vitamin D inclusion in homogenized milk

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passive strategies of health promotion

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