Health & Wellness Flashcards
(54 cards)
An objective state of ill health & the pathological process of which can be detected by medical science
Disease
A subjective experience of loss of health
Illness
An objective process characterized by functional stability, balance and integrity
Health
A subjective experience
wellness
“A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”
WHO definition of health
What are the classifications of health conceptualizations?
- Health as stability
- Health as actualization
- Health as actualization and stability
- Health as resource
- Health as unity
The maintenance of physiological, functional, & social norms, and encompasses views of health as a state, as a process, as adaptation, and as homeostasis.
Health as stability
The actualization of human potential.
Health as actualization
The realization of human potential through goal-directed behavior, competent self-care, and satisfying relationships with others, while adapting to meet the demands of everyday life and maintain harmony with the social and physical environments
Health as actualization and stability
Capacities to fulfill roles, meet demands, and engage in activities of everyday living.
Health as resource
Reflecting the whole person or process as is synonymous with self-transcendence
Health as unity
What is the medical approach?
Represents stability orientation to health and emphasizes that medical intervention restores health.
What are physiological risk factors?
Physiologically defined characteristics that are precursors to or risk factors for disease
Hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, genetic predispositions are all examples of what?
Physiological risk factors
What is the behavioral approach?
Further improvements in the environment, reductions in self-imposed risks, and a greater knowledge of human biology
exploring health determinants such as lifestyle, environment, human biology, and organization of health care is called what?
Health field concept
Smoking, substance abuse, lack of exercise, and unhealthy diets are examples of what?
Behavioral risk factors
an approach that places responsibility for ones health on the individual
Behavioral approach
What approach determines that health is closely tied to social structures like poverty, air pollution, and poor water quality?
Socioenvironmental approach
What are the prerequisites for health?
- Peace
2.Shelter - Education
- Food
- income
- A stable ecosystem
- sustainable resources
- social justice
- Equity
Complex psychological experiences resulting from social circumstances that include isolation, lack of social support, limited social networks, low self-esteem, self-blame, and low perceived power describe what risk factors?
Psychosocial risk factors
Social & environmental living conditions that include poverty, low educational or occupational status, dangerous/stressful work, dangerous physical environments, pollution, discrimination, relative political or economic powerlessness, and inequalities of income/power are examples of what risk conditions?
Socioenvironmental risk conditions
What approach uses the entire range of known individual and collective factors & conditions that determine population health status and interactions among them, are taken into account in planning action to improve health
The population health approach
What are the key determinants identified in the strategies for population health report?
- Income & social status
- Social support networks
- Education
- Employment and working conditions
- Physical environments
- Biology and genetic endowment
- Personal health practices and coping skills
- Healthy child development
- Health services.
