HLST 200 - Midterm Review Flashcards
- Health and Wellness - Active Living - Nutrition - Weight - Sexuality - Reproductive Choices and Pregnancy
Define: Life Expectancy
The average duration of life
Lowering your blood cholesterol level after after your Doctor informs you it is high is an example of?
Secondary Prevention
Define: Enabling Factor
Factors that make it possible or easier for people or populations to change their behavior. For example, living near a walking path when you want to start a walking program.
What is the ‘State of Being’ that precedes behaviour change?
Contemplation
An example of a reinforcing factor is?
Praise from family and friends
When setting realistic goals, what question should you ask yourself to gain insight into your behaviours?
What are my VALUES and what SKILLS do I need to make the change
Infant mortality rates are an example of?
A measurement of a nation’s health status
Termination is an ingrained behaviour change. TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE
Social Dimension of Health
family, community, and environmental factors affecting health
Based on the physiology of men and of women, men and women encounter similar health problems. TRUE or FALSE?
FALSE. There are many sex differences between men and women including differences in core body temperature, heart and circulatory system, lungs, liver, etc. These differences in physiology lead to differences in health problems. For example, due to differences in immune responses, men are less likely than women to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis.
Poverty has an indirect impact on a person’s health. TRUE or FALSE?
FALSE. The impact of poverty on health is direct. A gradient effect of health occurs as those with higher incomes tend to live longer than poor people and are healthier at every stage of life.
Define: Health
A sate of complete well-being, including physical, psychological, spiritual, social, intellectual, and environmental components.
Define: Wellness
A deliberate lifestyle choice characterized by personal responsibility and optimal enhancement of physical, mental, and spiritual health.
The five principles of the CHA are:
CAP-UP
- Comprehensiveness
- Accessibility
- Portability
- Universality
- Public Administration
The top 10 Canadian risk factors for premature death according to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
- Dietary Risks (poor diet/allergies)
- Smoking
- High body-mass index
- High blood pressure
- Physical inactivity
- High fasting BGL
- High total cholesterol
- Alcohol use
- Drug use
- Occupational risks
Wealth = Health - TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE
Many studies show that people low on the socio-economic scale are likely to carry a higher burden of just about any disease (Canadian Medical Association, 2013)
Define: Food Security
When people have physical and economic access to safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for a healthy life.
Difference between Sex and Gender?
“Sex” refers to the biological (e.g., anatomy) and physiological characteristics that define men and women on the genetic, molecular, cellular, organ or organism level
“Gender” is a term based on a sense of femininity or masculinity as defined by the society in which we live.
In Canada different strategies are used to improve health. List 5 categories.
- Health Education
- Health Promotion
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Population health
List the 4 PREDISPOSING factors to health behaviour
- Knowledge
- Attitude
- Beliefs
- Values
- Perceptions
List the 4 ENABLING factors to health behaviour
- Skills
- Resources
- Accessible facilities
- Physical capabilities
- Mental capabilities
List the 4 REINFORCING factors to health behaviour
- Praise from others
- Rewards
- Encouragement
- Recognition
- Sense of achievement
The six ‘Stages of Change’
- Precontemplation: A stage in which you are not even aware you have a problem and in which you have no intention to change.
- Contemplation: Awareness that there is a problem behaviour and the consideration of changing it within the next 6 months.
- Preparation: Intent to change the problem behaviour within the next month.
- Action: Modifying behaviour according to a plan. A commitment of time and energy required.
- Maintenance: Continued work at changing behaviour. This change may take six months to a lifetime. Some lapses may be temporary.
- Termination: The Stage of Change where after two to five years, as persons behaviour becomes so deeply engrained they cannot imagine abandoning the change they have made.
Define: Flexibility
The range of motion allowed by one’s joints; determined by the length of muscles, tendons, and ligaments attached to the joints.