Exam 4: health and wellness Flashcards
Definition of health
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
What Variables Influence Health Beliefs and Practices?
- How a person thinks and acts.
- Negatively or positively beliefs influence health behavior or health practices.
- Internal and external variables
Internal variables for health
Developmental
Emotional
Spiritual
Intellectual
External variables for health
Family practices/beliefs
Social Determinants of health
Cultural
Health promotion
Helps individuals maintain or enhance their present health
Health education
Helps people develop a greater understanding of their health and how to better manage their health risks
Illness prevention
protects people from actual or potential threats to health
Passive strategize example
Fluoridation of municipal water
Active strategies examples
Smoking cessation, weight loss
Primary level of prevention
Primary = prevention
Precedes disease
True prevention lowers the chance that a disease will develop
Secondary levels of prevention
Secondary = slows
- treating early stages of disease and delaying advancing disease
- at risk for complications or worsening conditions
Tertiary level of prevention
Tertiary = treat/teach/train
- occurs when a defect or disability is permanent or irreversible, minimize effect of disability
Risk factors
Variables that increase the vulnerability of an individual or a group to an illness or accident
Acute illness
Short duration and severe
Reversible, abrupt, subsides
Chronic illness
Persists longer than 6 months
Irreversible
