Lecture #1 Flashcards
Are quantity and quality of life achieved together? Why or why not?
No, quantity and quality of life are not achieved together. The quantity of life refers to how long (how many years) an individual lives for while the quality of life refers to how the condition of one’s life is. Quality of life is often impacted by lifestyle choices. These choices can include healthy eating vs nonhealthy eating, smoking vs not smoking, exercising vs not exercising and so on. The better your lifestyle choices are, the more likely you are to have a better quality of life.
What is the major contributor to disease in our society?
- Lifestyle Choices
a. Including smoking, lack of exercise, poor diet, and poor stress management.
What is the pattern of healthcare cost over the past several years?
- It’s been going up.
- Average health care expenditures are annual around 10,000 per person in the USA, higher than any other country in 2016.
Healthcare costs have been rising over the past several years for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons include increased vaccination and disease control, safer workplaces and vehicle standards, and increases in average life spans
- Average health care expenditures are annual around 10,000 per person in the USA, higher than any other country in 2016.
What are contributors to the high healthcare costs?
Some of these reasons include increased vaccination and disease control, safer workplaces and vehicle standards, and increases in average life spans
How are diseases of today different from those of 1900? What is the significance of this in relation to healthcare costs?
In 1900, people were much more likely to get infectious diseases. These diseases came on quickly, and you either survived or you died. Today, with vaccinations and other advances in medicine, infectious diseases aren’t killing as many people. The problem today is chronic disease, which can come on slowly and last for decades. Half of adults today have had a chronic disease. Diseases that last for years make healthcare more expensive because of the extended period of treatment. Also, because of all the advances we’ve made over the past 100 years, life expectancy is much higher than before. Longer life expectancies mean longer amounts of time that people could need healthcare, which contributes to the rise in costs.
According to CDC projections, how would universal exercise in our society impact healthcare costs?
It would cut down health care costs by 2/3rds if everyone exercised.
Can you identify differences between health and fitness?
- Health-
a. The state of being free from injury.
b. Health is not an ill or not ill matter. It is constantly changing. Health concerns of today are replaced by new concerns tomorrow. There are many determinants to health other than am I ill or not ill.- Fitness-
a. An ability or capacity to fulfill a particular role.
Someone with a greater fitness level has a greater ability to perform work using this fitness parameter. Individuals who have a higher level of physical fitness are able to conduct their job, their activities of living, and have a greater reserve of physical capacity remaining. Life demands do not require them to approach their maximal ability.
- Fitness-
What are risk factors and how can risk factors help assess one’s health status?
- Family history, personal medical history, nutrition habits, smoking, drinking, substance abuse habits, body size, exercise/physical activity, many many others.
Can help us determine what we need to change in order to optimize our health.
How does fitness contribute to health?
Although fitness level and health are not the same thing, increasing fitness level will assist in optimizing health if done in a healthy manner.
Is there a difference between physical activity and exercise?
- Physical activity - any bodily movement carried out by the skeletal muscles and requiring energy
Exercise- A subset of physical activity. It is planned, structured(scheduled time, type of workout, length of time/distance of workout, frequency of workouts), activity that has a designated purpose(maintain/increase fitness level, improve performance, weight management).
