STRESS AND ILLNESS Flashcards
Epidemiologic Triad
Host, Environment, Agent
Theory about Internal Milieu
Internal Evironment of the Body
Claude Bernard
Theory about Homeostasis
Fight or Flight
Walter Cannon
Theory, founder of Modern Stress
Health > Disease
Adaptive hormones are released during stress
Alarm Reaction or Local Adaptation Syndrome
Hans Selye
Theorist of the Hierarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow
Theorist of Health- Illness Continuum
Albert Dunn
Sequence of behaviour in the body when stressed
General Adaptation Syndrome
3 stages of General Adaptation Syndrome
Alarm Reaction
Stage Resistance
Stage of Exhausion
Theorist that is Interested in Physiological and Psychological response of the body.
How life situation affects the susceptibility
Harold Wolff
Illness related to life patterns
Psychosomatic Medicine
Specific Microorganism is necessary to develop each infectious disease.
Pasteur’s Germ Theory
Derived from Bernard and Cannon
Feedback and Self-regulation of the Body
Cybernetic Theory
Factors and predisposing factors that can complete the puzzle of disease causation
Multicausal Theory
Fulfillment of Basic needs to meet higher needs
Hierarchy of Needs
More concerned with health than the disease
Hans Selye