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Health and Wellness Flashcards

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Discuss whether Canadians are among the healthiest in the world.

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  • Among healthiest in world
  • 4th highest life expectancy in the world
  • Visit the hospital more
  • Lower infant mortality rates
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Talk about the characteristics of Canadian health care services.

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  1. Publicly administered, non-profit
  2. Comprehensive
  3. Universal
  4. Accessible
  5. Portable
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What are some perceived problems in the Canadian health care system?

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  • Access to specialist care
  • Electronic medical records
  • Quality of medical research
  • Overcrowding in emergency rooms
  • Doctors leaving Canada, shortages
  • Threats of privatization
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Talk about the health of Guelph students in general.

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  • 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
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What is the evolution of the idea of health?

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  1. Absence of disease
    - Being alive is the important thing
    - Disease treatment
  2. Longevity (medical model)
    - Body is a machine
    - Disease prevention
  3. 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
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What are the WHO factors of health?

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  1. Environmental influences (physical and social)
    - Family violence and abuse
    - Contaminants in air, water
    - Living conditions (food, shelter, clean air, water)
  2. Mental and body states
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What is the quality of life model?

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  1. Who one is
    - Physical being
    - Psychological being
    - Spiritual being
  2. Connections with one’s environment
    - Physical belonging
    - Social belonging
    - Community belonging
  3. Achieving one’s personal goals, hopes, and aspirations
    - Practical becoming
    - Leisure becoming
    - Growth becoming
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What does Halbert Dunn’s criteria say about quality of life?

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Wellness has 3 parts:

  • Direction and progress to higher potential of functioning
  • The total individual is included in wellness
  • Adapting for daily crises
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What is the definition of wellness?

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  • 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
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What are the dimensions of wellness? How do they relate to health?

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Physical
Emotional
Intellectual
Social
Spiritual
Occupational
Environmental

For optimal health (and therefore quality of life), all dimensions of wellness must be working together.

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Talk about the physical dimension of wellness.

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  • Exercise, diet, sleep
  • Monitory health
  • No drug abuse
  • Avoid risky behaviour
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Talk about the emotional dimension of wellness.

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  • 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
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Talk about the intellectual dimension of wellness.

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  • Curiosity
  • Openness to new ideas
  • Logical and bright-minded, confident
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Talk about the social dimension of wellness.

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  • Contributing to society and helping others
  • Value interdependence
  • Interest in humanity
  • Ability to relate to others
  • Touch is vital
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Talk about the spiritual dimension of wellness.

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  • Identify purpose in life
  • Able to see larger picture
  • Learning to experience fulfillment
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Talk about the occupational dimension of wellness.

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  • Learn new skills
  • Personally rewarding
  • Consistent with personal values
  • Opportunity for advancement and recognition
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Talk about the environmental dimension of wellness.

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  • Leading lifestyle that is respectful to environment

- Educate and protect ourselves from environmental hazards

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What is holism?

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An emphasis on the interconnectedness between an individual and his/her mind, body, and spirit

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What are mechanisms to health promotion?

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  • 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
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What is UfT’s quality of life model?

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  1. Being
    - Physical
    - Spiritual
    - Psychological
  2. Belonging
    - Physical
    - Social
    - Community
  3. Becoming
    - Practical (school, volunteer)
    - Leisure (promote relaxation)
    - Growth (promote adaptation)
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How might Canada deal with Canadian health problems?

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  • 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
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What is the health belief model?

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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)
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What are some general facts about the normal body?

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  • 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
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True or false: Men and women face different health challenges.

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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
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What is the Lalonde report?

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  • Health field concept included 4 elements: human biology, environment, lifestyle, and healthcare organizations
  • Persuaded medical leaders to rethink current medical practices based on treatment-focused medicine and acknowledge that you should prevent diseases
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How does WHO define health?

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Not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing

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