Healthy Lifestyles and Family Flashcards
What is health promotion?
Aims at improving/promoting health.
What is health prevention?
Focuses on reducing disease and its factors
Non-modifiable risk factors include:
Family history
Race
Age
Gender
What is Primary level of prevention?
Keep the healthy person healthy.
-immunizations, poison control, accident prevention, safe sex, seat belts, exercise, healthy diet.
What is Secondary level of prevention?
Screening for early detection of disease with prompt diagnosis and treatment.
-“screenings”, BP checks, glucose, BMI, cholesterol, mammograms, gynecological exams, breast/testicular.
What is tertiary level of prevention?
Begins after illness has been diagnosed. Goal=reduce disability and rehab to max.
-post stroke rehab, diabetic teaching, refer to support groups.
Six stages of Transtheoretical Model of Change?
- Pre-contemplative: not thinking about change
- Contemplative: thinking about change in future
- Decision making: constructs a plan
- Action: takes steps to operationalize plan
- Maintenance: works to prevent relapse and to sustain gains
- Termination: resists relapse
Developmental stressor
Occurs at predictable times through life
Situational stressor
Unpredictable and occurs at any time
How can stress affect people?
Emotionally, intellectually, socially, and spiritually
Nuclear Family
-Committee couple (not always married)
-Live in same house
-Children biological or adopted
Nuclear Dyad
Two adults living together
-no children or adult kids not at home
Single adult
Living alone by choice or divorce/death
Multigenerational
Two or more adult generations in one house
Kin Network
Several nuclear families in same house or near by.
Most popular for young adults