Health and Wellness Flashcards
Define Health
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Define Wellness
Active process through which people become aware of, and make choices towards a more successful existence
Wellness is…
Conscious, self directed and evolving
Multi dimensional and holistic
Encompasses lifestyle, mental and spiritual well being and environment
Positive and affirming
Domains of Wellness
Physical, social, psychological intellectual, emotional, and spiritual
Illness
Opposite of wellness
Perception and response to a person not feeling well
Disturbance in the normal biological function and personal, interpersonal and cultural reactions to diseases
- Illness does not equal disease
Health Promotion
Art and science
Enhancing their motivation
Dynamic balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health
Models
Provide illustration of how certain parts are related within a structure
Good theory would use a lot of models to demonstrate the components of the theory
Thoeries
Allow you to understand, explain and predict behavior
Provides the how and why a behavior occurs
Offers a framework to develop interventions
Apply to many situations, needs to be broad and abstract
Models of Health
Medical (clinical)
Ecological Model
Holistic (Biopsychosocial)
Medical (Clinical) Model
Pathology based model
Provides for vital statistics for prevalence and incidence of disease
Allows for direct cause/effect relationships for research
Limitations to medical/clinical model
NO personal or environmental considerations
Lacks preventative component
Ecological Model
Model that healthy people 2020 use
involves social family, lifestyle, working conditions, interventions, policies, programs, and environment and how they all impact one another
Holistic (Biopsychosocial) Model
Health defined in terms of the whole person
Includes physiological, mental, emotional, spiritual, and environmental
Focus is on optimal health, prevention of disease and positive mental and physical states
Health is a state of optimum or positive wellness
Holistic Model and dimensions of wellness
Emotional Intellectual Spiritual Occupational Social Physical
Osteopathic Philosophy
Preventative, whole person care
Address physical ailments, yet encourage healthy living to prevent disease and illness
Health Belief Model
Health related behavior depends upon:
Perceived susceptibility to that illness
Perceived severity of potential illness
4 constructs of health belief model to represent readiness to change
- Benefits to takng action
- Barriers to taking action
- Cues to action
- Self efficacy - confidence in ability to successful execute the action
Application of the health belief model
- What are you going to assess - how will you assess the patients readiness to change (questionnaire, interview)
- What interventions will you provide - need to get them to buy in
Limitations to health belief model
people think that these things wont happen to them
Transtheoretical Model
Behavior change is a process, not an event
Cognition and behaviors are different throughout stages
One size does not fit all
4 Constructs of Transtheorteical Model
Stages of change
Decisional Balance
Process of change
Self efficacy
Stages of Change
Precontemplation - I wont/ I cant Contemplation - I might Preparation - I will Action - I am Maitenence - I have
Decisional Balance
The pros and cons of the behavior - how will this change
Process of change
Behaviors, cognitions and emotions to change a behavior
