Fundamentals: Chapter 6 Flashcards
What is illness behavior?
Different attitudes cause people to react in different ways to illness or the illness of a family member.
Which health model helps you understand factors influencing patients’ perceptions, beliefs, and behavior to plan care that will most effectively assist patients in maintaining or restoring health and preventing illness?
Health Belief Model
Which health model defines health as a positive, dynamic state, not merely the absence of disease?
Health Promotion
Which health model are patients involved in their healing process, thereby assuming some responsibility for health maintenance?
Holistic
Which kind of health prevention precedes disease or dysfunction and is applied to patients considered physically and emotionally healthy?
Primary Prevention
Which kind of health prevention focuses on individuals who are experiencing health problems or illnesses and are at risk for developing complications or worsening conditions?
Secondary Prevention
Which kind of health prevention occurs when a defect or disability is permanent and irreversible?
Tertiary Prevention
What are the stages of health behavior change?
Precontemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
What is the transtheoretical model of change?
describes a series of changes through which patients progress for successful behavior change rather than simply assuming that all patients are in an action stage
Give 3 examples of Primary prevention:
health education programs
immunizations
physical/nutritional fitness activiites
Give 3 examples of Secondary prevention:
In-home care
Skilled Nursing Facilities
screening and tx of early stages of disease
What is the definition of health? (WHO)
state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
