HSC 301: Orientation To Health Science Flashcards
What is the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of Health?
the state of complete mental, physical and social well being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, and well as physical capabilities.
What is Community health?
the health status of a defined group of people and the actions and conditions to promote, protect and preserve their health.
What is Health Education?
Health education is concerned with informing people about health issues.
It is any combination of planned learning experiences using evidence based practices and/or sound theories that provide the opportunity to acquire knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to adopt and maintain healthy behaviors.
What is Health Promotion?
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.
It is concerned with promoting a healthy lifestyle and preventing illness and it includes social, psychological, political, and educational factors.
What is Global Health?
Health problems, issues, and concerns that transcend national boundaries and are beyond the control of individual nations, and are best addressed by cooperative actions and solutions.
What is Public Health?
An organized effort by society, primarily through its public institutions, to improve, promote, protect and restore the health of the population through collective action.
What is Population Health?
The health status of people who are not organized and have no identity as a group or locality and the actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their health
What is Wellness?
An approach to health that focuses on balancing the many aspects, or dimensions, of a person’s life through increasing the adoption of health enhancing conditions and behaviors rather than attempting to minimize conditions of illness.
What is Advocacy?
Actions intended to alter public opinions.
What are examples of health advancements achieved in the 20th century?
- Sanitation-indoor plumbing, sewer systems
- Breaking the chain of infection
- Education
- Immunizations
- Work safety
- Mental Health
- Invention of birth control
- Blood transfusions
- Tobacco
- Marijuana
- Safety belts, child safety
- Roads/transportation
- Bioterrorism
- Lower maternal and infant mortality rates
- Environmental Health
What are examples of health advancements achieved in the 21st century?
- Immunizations
- Environmental health
- Bioterrorism
- Healthcare
- Mental Health
- Sex education
- Organ transplants/stem cell research
What is Community Health?
The health status of a defined group of people and the actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their health
