Health and Illness Flashcards
A synonym for sickness that relates biological or physical malfunctioning (clinical perspective)
Disease
True or False Illness is a state in which a person’s physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental or spiritual functioning is diminished or impairment compared with previous experience
True
True or False Disease is a personal or subjective state in which the person feels unhealthy or unwell.
False
True or False Illness may or may not be related to disease
True
What are the different models of Health and Illness
Agent-Host-Environment Health/Illness Continuum High-Level Wellness Model Health Belief Model Health Promotion Model
What is the term used to describe theoretical way of understanding a concept.
Model
What are the different factors that make up the epidemiological triad
Host (Man)
Agent (Specific causative factor)
Environment (facilitates the interaction of host and agent)
Sometimes a vector is involved
Which model is built on the premise that that disease prevention and curing regimens will eventually be successful and the belief that health is highly valued.
Health Belief Model
What model Has been primarily used in nursing
Health Promotion Model
What model emphasises actualisation of health potential and an increase in the level of wellbeing rather than avoidance of disease
Health Promotion Model
What are 3 major components of the Health Promotion Model
Individual characteristics and experiences
Behaviour-specific cognition and affect
Behavioural outcome
What are the different risk factors for disease
Genetic and Physiological Factors
Age
Environment
Lifestyle
What are the three classifications of disease
According to aetiological factors
According to duration of onset
Other classification of disease
What etiological factor results from inadequate intake of absorption of essential dietary factors
Deficiency
What etiological factor is due to injury.
Traumatic
What etiological factor is due to abnormal response of the body to chemical or protein substances
Allergic
What etiological factor is due to abnormal or uncontrolled growth of cells
Neoplastic
What etiological factor cause is unknown; Self-originated; of spontaneous origin.
Idiopathic
What etiological factor results from the degenerative changes that occur in tissue and organs.
Degenerative
What etiological factor results from the treatment of a disease
Iatrogenic
Two ways to classify the onset of disease
Acute, Chronic
What is the term used to describe a period during which the disease is controlled symptoms are not obvious
Remission
What is the term used to describe when the disease becomes more active again at a future time, recurrence of pronounced symptoms
Exacerbation
What is the term given to a class of disease that results from changes in the normal structure, from recognizable anatomical changes in an organ or tissue of the body
Organic
What is the term given to a class of disease that no anatomical changes are observed to account for the symptoms, may result from abnormal response to stimuli
Functional
What is the term given to a class of disease that results from factors associated with the occupation engaged in by the patient (e.g. cancer among chemical factory workers).
Occupational
What is the term given to a class of disease that attacks a large number of individuals in a community at the same time
Epidemic
What is the term given to a class of disease that present more or less continuously or recurs in the community
Endemic
What is the term given to a class of disease where epidemic diseases which is extremely widespread involving an entire country or continent.
Pandemic
What is the term given to a class of disease where a disease only occasional cases occur
Sporadic
What is the term given to a class of disease that occurs in several individuals of the same family (e.g. hypertension, cancer)
Familial
What is the term given to a class of disease that usually acquired through sexual relation (HIV/AIDS, gonorrhea)
Venereal
What are the 4 possible Health outcomes
Cure, Control, Disability, Death
What are the 4 stages of illness
Symptom Experience
Assumption of Sick Role
Medical Care Contact
Dependent Patient Role
