Health-related Behaviors and Primary Prevention Flashcards
What is a heath behavior?
a health enhancing behavior or habit
what is a health-risk behavior?
behavior that compromises health.
explain how health-related behaviors interact and often interrelated
excessive drinking and exercise, smoking and coffee drinking
What does YRBS project stand for?
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance
Different things that shows premature death, disability, and chronic illness
What is the health belief model?
6 different interworking components that consist of
- you (who you are)
- your beliefs X3
- influences on belief
- traget behavioral goal
problem is that it’s messy and hard to understand
What is the Theory of Planned Behavior?
3 components that leads to intention (critical mediator), which finally leads to behavior
- attitude towards behavior (Binge drinking is dangerous)
- subjective norm (everyone’s doing it)
- perceived behavior control (I have to go along with others if I want to be liked)
Explain Primary vs Secondary vs Tertiary Prevention
Primary is health enhancing efforts to prevent disease or injuring from occurring; health-related behaviors (wearing seat belt, good nutrition, exercise, etc)
Secondary is action taken to identify and treat an illness or disability early in its occurrence; compliance behavior (monitoring symptoms, taking medication, follow treatment regiment, dietary solidification)
Tertiary - action taken to contain damage once a disease or disability has progressed beyond its early stages; radiation therapy, chemotherapy, THIS IS THE MOST COMMON FORM OF HEATLH CARE
Why don’t more older adults exercise?
myths associated with exercise - difficult, useless, unsafe, too late to get any benefits.
exercise self-efficacy - barriers; less experience with exercise, few role models, age related stereotypes
Describe some of issues with healthy sleep (Elixir of health)
1 in 5 adults is sleep deprived
- sleep disorders, stress of work/studies
Sleep debt (chronic lack of sleep)
- increase body weight
- suppress immune function
- effects can mimic acerbated aging
In sleep debt, explain how it promotes increase in body weight.
increases ghrelin (hunger) and decreases leptin (fullness)
In sleep debt, explain how the immune system is suppressed?
increase in cytokine levels
Explain some of the impact on health and families/communities
high-risk family characteristics
- conflict, anger, aggression, deficient nurturing, unsupportive, inconsistent. neglectful
family barriers
- healthy habits are modeled after parents
- genetics
Explain the health system barriers
- medicine tends to focus on treatment instead of prevention
- economic forces undermine the efforts of health care workers to promote preventative care
How many people are uninsured?
- 80% of working families
- 27% are low income
- single adults
- high cost
What is the leading cause of death for people between 1 and 44?
injury
