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Health and Illness Flashcards

1
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A synonym for sickness that relates biological or physical malfunctioning (clinical perspective)

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Disease

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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

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True

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True or False Disease is a personal or subjective state in which the person feels unhealthy or unwell.

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False

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True or False Illness may or may not be related to disease

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True

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5
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What are the different models of Health and Illness

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Agent-Host-Environment
Health/Illness Continuum
High-Level Wellness Model
Health Belief Model
Health Promotion Model
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What is the term used to describe theoretical way of understanding a concept.

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Model

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What are the different factors that make up the epidemiological triad

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Host (Man)
Agent (Specific causative factor)
Environment (facilitates the interaction of host and agent)
Sometimes a vector is involved

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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.

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Health Belief Model

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9
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What model Has been primarily used in nursing

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Health Promotion Model

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What model emphasises actualisation of health potential and an increase in the level of wellbeing rather than avoidance of disease

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Health Promotion Model

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What are 3 major components of the Health Promotion Model

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Individual characteristics and experiences
Behaviour-specific cognition and affect
Behavioural outcome

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12
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What are the different risk factors for disease

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Genetic and Physiological Factors
Age
Environment
Lifestyle

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13
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What are the three classifications of disease

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According to aetiological factors
According to duration of onset
Other classification of disease

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14
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What etiological factor results from inadequate intake of absorption of essential dietary factors

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Deficiency

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What etiological factor is due to injury.

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Traumatic

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What etiological factor is due to abnormal response of the body to chemical or protein substances

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Allergic

17
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What etiological factor is due to abnormal or uncontrolled growth of cells

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Neoplastic

18
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What etiological factor cause is unknown; Self-originated; of spontaneous origin.

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Idiopathic

19
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What etiological factor results from the degenerative changes that occur in tissue and organs.

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Degenerative

20
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What etiological factor results from the treatment of a disease

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Iatrogenic

21
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Two ways to classify the onset of disease

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Acute, Chronic

22
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What is the term used to describe a period during which the disease is controlled symptoms are not obvious

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Remission

23
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What is the term used to describe when the disease becomes more active again at a future time, recurrence of pronounced symptoms

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Exacerbation

24
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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

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Organic

25
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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

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Functional

26
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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).

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Occupational

27
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What is the term given to a class of disease that attacks a large number of individuals in a community at the same time

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Epidemic

28
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What is the term given to a class of disease that present more or less continuously or recurs in the community

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Endemic

29
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What is the term given to a class of disease where epidemic diseases which is extremely widespread involving an entire country or continent.

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Pandemic

30
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What is the term given to a class of disease where a disease only occasional cases occur

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Sporadic

31
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What is the term given to a class of disease that occurs in several individuals of the same family (e.g. hypertension, cancer)

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Familial

32
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What is the term given to a class of disease that usually acquired through sexual relation (HIV/AIDS, gonorrhea)

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Venereal

33
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What are the 4 possible Health outcomes

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Cure, Control, Disability, Death

34
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What are the 4 stages of illness

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Symptom Experience
Assumption of Sick Role
Medical Care Contact
Dependent Patient Role

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