Midterm Flashcards
(16 cards)
Classifications of Health (3)
- Health as stability
- Health as actualization
- Health as actualization and stability
Maintenance of physiological functional and social norms and it relates to concepts of adaptation and homeostasis.
Health as stability
Actualization of human potential, health and wellness are interchangeable. Maximizing what people can do for themselves
Health as actualization
Incorporates both actualization and stabilization concepts.
Health as actualization and stability
represents a stability orientation to health, dominated Western thinking for most of the twenthieth century. It emphasizes that medical intervention restores health. Health problems are defined as physiological risk factors.
Medical Approach
One’s own actions affect your health. Prevention.
Behavioural Approach
Health is closely tied to social structures
Socioenvironmental Approach
Determinants of Health (8)
- Income and social status
- Social support networks
- Education and Literacy
- Employment and working conditions
- Physical environments
- Biology and genetic endowment
- Personal health practices and coping skills
- Healthy child development
- Health services
- Gender
- Culture
- Social Environment
Difference between growth and development
Growth: increase in physical measurements
Development: progressive and continuous process of change leading to increased skill and capacity of function.
Piaget (4)
- Sensimotor
- Preoperational
- Concrete operations
- Formal Operations
Cognitive ability enhanced by ability to move objects (0-2)
Sensimotor
learn to think with use of symbols and mental images. (2-7)
Preoperational
Start of logical thinking (7-11)
Concrete Operations
Abstract and theoretical thinking (11+)
Formal Operations
Senile ptosis
Drooping
3 components of memory
- Immediate Recall
- Short Term (mins to days)
- Long Term (months to years)
