Chapter 6 Health And Wellness

Front 1

What are the main goals of Healthy People 2010?

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1. To increase the quality and years of healthy life
2. to eliminate health dispairities

Front 2

What are the four areas of topic that Healthy People 2010 covers?

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1. Promoting Healthy Behaviors
2. Promoting Healthy and Safe Communities
3. Improving systems for personal and public health
4. preventing and reducing diseases

Front 3

Define health.

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The World Health Organization, (WHO) defines health as, "state of complete physical, mental, and social well being. Not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

Front 4

What do models aide us in doing in regards to wellness and illness?

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Models are used to understand the relationships between these two concepts and the clients attitudes towards health and health behaviors.

Front 5

Give some examples of positive health behaviors and what they do.

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Positive Health Behaviors are related to maintaining, regaining, or attaining good health and preventing illness.
Ex: Immunizations, proper sleep patterns, adequate exercise, and proper nutrition.

Front 6

Give some examples of negative health behaviors, and what they do.

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Practices actually harmful or potentially harmful to health. Examples of these include smoking, or drug and alcohol abuse, unsafe sex practices, poor diet, poor exericse routine.

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What does the Heath Belief Model Demonstrate?

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The Health Belief Model Demonstrates a way of understanding the relationship between the person's beliefs and behaviors. It also provides a way of predicting how clients will behave in relation to their health and how they will comply with health care therapies.

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What is health promotion?

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Is directed at increasing a client's level of well being.

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What does the Health Promotion Model describe?

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The multidimensional nature of persons as they interact within their environment to pursue health.

Front 10

Explain the levels of "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs" model.

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1. Basic/Physiological Needs
2. Safety and Security
3. Love and belonging
4. Self Esteem
5. Self Actualization

Front 11

Name some internal variables that affect Health Beliefs and Practices.

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Developmental Stage
Intellectual Background
Perception of Functioning
Emotional Factors
Spiritual Factors

Front 12

What are some External Variables that influence a person's health beliefs and practices?

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Family Practices
Socioeconomical Factors
Cultural Background

Front 13

Define the goals of HEALTH PROMOTION and describe some HEALTH PROMOTION ACTIVITIES.

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Health Promotion motivate people to act positively to reach MORE stable levels of health. Examples include:
routine exercise, and good nutrition.

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What are the goals of WELLNESS EDUCATION and some examples of wellness education activities?

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Wellness education strategies involve helping person's achieve a new understanding and control of their lives. Examples of these are: Wellness Education of teaching someone how to care for themselves, physical awareness, stress management, and self responsibility.

Front 15

What is the overall goal of ILLNESS prevention and name some examples.

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Illness prevention motivate people to avoid declines in health or functional levels. Examples are immunization programs.

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Health Promotion activities can be passive or active. What does this mean?

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With passive strategies, individuals gain from the activities of others without acting themselves. EX: Fluoridation of municipal water, and fortification of homogenized milk with Vita D.
Active strategies consist of individuals having to actually adopt specific health programs, ie; weight loss programs, smoking cessation.

Front 17

Define Health Promotion.

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The science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health.

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Define Primary PREVENTION

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Is true prevention. It occurs before disease and applied to clients who are considered physically and emotionally healthy. This includes; health education programs, immunizations, and physical and nutritional fitness activities. *NOTE THAT HEALTH PROMOTION, WELLNESS, AND ILLNESS PREVENTION are all combined in this area to aide in an overall primary prevention*

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Who can primary prevention be applied to?

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Typically healthy individuals, or to general populations, or it can focus on individuals at risk for developing a specific disease.

Front 20

Name some examples of primary prevention.

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Providing immunizations for influenza, or hearing protection in an occupational setting.

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Define Secondary PREVENTION.

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Focuses more in individuals who are experiencing health problems or illnesses and who are at risk for developing further complications or worsening conditions. Activities are focused of diagnosis and prompt intervention, thereby reducing severity.

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Where is Secondary Prevention typically applied?

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delivered at homes, hospitals, or nursing skilled facilities.

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What are some activities that are included in Secondary PREVENTION.

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Screening techniques and treating early stages of a disease to limit further disability.

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What is Tertiary Prevention.

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Tertiary prevention occurs when a defect or disability is permanent and irreversible. It involves minimizing the affects of LONG-TERM disease or disability by interventions directed at preventing complications and deterioration.

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When you are dealing with Tertiary Prevention, what is the overall aim?

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Care at the the Tertiary Prevention level is primarily focused of helping clients to achieve as HIGH a level of functioning as possible, despite the limitations caused by illness.

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What is a risk factor?

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Any situation, habit, social, or environmental condition, physiological or psychological condition, developmental or intellectual condition, or spiritual or other variable that increases the vulnerability of an individual or group to an illness or accident.

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Define Illness

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A state in which a person's physical, emotional, and intellectual, social, and developmental or spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired, in comparison with previous experience.