Health and Wellness Flashcards
Discuss whether Canadians are among the healthiest in the world.
- Among healthiest in world
- 4th highest life expectancy in the world
- Visit the hospital more
- Lower infant mortality rates
Talk about the characteristics of Canadian health care services.
- Publicly administered, non-profit
- Comprehensive
- Universal
- Accessible
- Portable
What are some perceived problems in the Canadian health care system?
- Access to specialist care
- Electronic medical records
- Quality of medical research
- Overcrowding in emergency rooms
- Doctors leaving Canada, shortages
- Threats of privatization
Talk about the health of Guelph students in general.
- Good health
- More men engage in risky activities
- Residence dangers include binge-drinking, infections, smoking
- Common complaints include back pain, allergies, UTI, strep throat, sinus infection
- Eat more fruits and vegetables
- Less than 50% of students get enough exercise, matches population
- Less than 50% use condom
- Drinking less, more marijuana
- 50% of students report more than average stress
- Stressors include academics, sleep difficulties, finances, intimate relationships, appearance, career-related issues
- ¼ students reported having been diagnosed or treated for a mental illness for the past year
- Internet use impacting students’ health
What is the evolution of the idea of health?
- Absence of disease
- Being alive is the important thing
- Disease treatment - Longevity (medical model)
- Body is a machine
- Disease prevention - Wellness (holistic model)
- Improve quality of life
- UfT: “degree person enjoys important possibilities of his/her life”
- Health promotion rather than treatment focused medicine
- Recognizes interconnected factors of health
What are the WHO factors of health?
- Environmental influences (physical and social)
- Family violence and abuse
- Contaminants in air, water
- Living conditions (food, shelter, clean air, water) - Mental and body states
What is the quality of life model?
- Who one is
- Physical being
- Psychological being
- Spiritual being - Connections with one’s environment
- Physical belonging
- Social belonging
- Community belonging - Achieving one’s personal goals, hopes, and aspirations
- Practical becoming
- Leisure becoming
- Growth becoming
What does Halbert Dunn’s criteria say about quality of life?
Wellness has 3 parts:
- Direction and progress to higher potential of functioning
- The total individual is included in wellness
- Adapting for daily crises
What is the definition of wellness?
- Purposeful, enjoyable living
- A dynamic process rather than passive
- Personal responsibility, consciously making decisions to improve health and life
- Optimal enhancement of physical, mental, and spiritual health
- Taking steps to prevent illness and live life to the fullest
What are the dimensions of wellness? How do they relate to health?
Physical Emotional Intellectual Social Spiritual Occupational Environmental
For optimal health (and therefore quality of life), all dimensions of wellness must be working together.
Talk about the physical dimension of wellness.
- Exercise, diet, sleep
- Monitory health
- No drug abuse
- Avoid risky behaviour
Talk about the emotional dimension of wellness.
- Degree one feels positive and enthusiastic about life
- Understand own feelings and how to manage them
- Can adjust to change and stress
- Accept and understand feelings of others
Talk about the intellectual dimension of wellness.
- Curiosity
- Openness to new ideas
- Logical and bright-minded, confident
Talk about the social dimension of wellness.
- Contributing to society and helping others
- Value interdependence
- Interest in humanity
- Ability to relate to others
- Touch is vital
Talk about the spiritual dimension of wellness.
- Identify purpose in life
- Able to see larger picture
- Learning to experience fulfillment
Talk about the occupational dimension of wellness.
- Learn new skills
- Personally rewarding
- Consistent with personal values
- Opportunity for advancement and recognition
Talk about the environmental dimension of wellness.
- Leading lifestyle that is respectful to environment
- Educate and protect ourselves from environmental hazards
What is holism?
An emphasis on the interconnectedness between an individual and his/her mind, body, and spirit
What are mechanisms to health promotion?
- Self-care: decisions and actions individuals take in the interest of their own health
- Mutual aid: actions people take to help each other cope
- Healthy environments: creation of conditions and surroundings conducive to health
What is UfT’s quality of life model?
- Being
- Physical
- Spiritual
- Psychological - Belonging
- Physical
- Social
- Community - Becoming
- Practical (school, volunteer)
- Leisure (promote relaxation)
- Growth (promote adaptation)
How might Canada deal with Canadian health problems?
- Adopting a framework for social inclusion
- Promoting full employment, job security, and healthy working conditions
- Protecting universal access to our high-quality health system
- Protecting Canada’s high-quality public education system
- Ensuring the right of all Canadians to adequate housing and food
- Reducing income disparities by ensuring minimum wages and levels of social assistance
What is the health belief model?
Talks about how we make decisions to change our health.
- Perceived susceptibility (whether they believe they are at risk)
- Perceived severity (how serious the consequence of not changing is)
- Cues to action (an event that acts as a catalyst)
- Self-efficacy (the likelihood they think they will successfully make the change in behaviour)
What are some general facts about the normal body?
- Body temperature is 37 C, usually lower in the morning
- Pulse should be between 60-80 heart beats a minute
- Respiratory rate is 12-18 breaths per minute
- Blood pressure is 120mmHg/80mmHg
True or false: Men and women face different health challenges.
True.
- Women are more likely to develop depression, have a longer life span, twice as likely to get an eating disorder, more vulnerable to autoimmune disorders
- Men are more likely to have ADHD, more likely to be physically active, more prone to lethal diseases such as heart attacks, more likely to become an alcoholic
