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Understanding Your Health and Wellness Flashcards

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Well-being

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A state of health and wellness in which one feels safe, fulfilled, and productive, and looks forward to enjoying a long life.

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Wellness

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Conscious, self-directed, evolving process of looking at your health and learning to become healthy. The process of improving your health.

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Health

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A state of complete social, emotional, physical, and mental well-being. Not merely the absence of disease or injury.

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Physical health

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A dimension of health that involves your body, including physical fitness and the ability to cope with everyday physical tasks.

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Emotional health

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A dimension of health that involves your emotions, mood, outlook on life, and beliefs about yourself.

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Social health

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A dimension of health that involves your communication skills, relationships, and ability to interact with others.

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Intellectual health

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A dimension of health that involves your ability to think clearly and critically, learn, and solve problems.

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Optimal health

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A state of excellent health and wellness in all areas of your life.

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Disease

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A poor state of health and wellness in various areas of your life.

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Acute diseases

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Diseases that occur and resolve quickly.

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Chronic diseases

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Diseases that occur for many years, even for a lifetime.

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Disorder

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An abnormal physical or mental condition with no single, identifiable cause.

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Health literacy

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The ability to locate, interpret, and apply information pertaining to your health.

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Health promotion

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A process in which you take charge of your own health and wellness by making responsible and well-informed decisions.

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Lifelong learning

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A continuing pursuit of learning and studying that carries through your entire life; a key component of your ability to take charge of your own health.

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Pseudoscience

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Theories and health claims that are decided as being base in science when they are not.

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Science

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A collection of and the pursuit of knowledge about the natural world drawn from observation and experimentation.

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Scientific knowledge

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Conclusions about the natural world that have been obtained through peer-reviewed, repeatable observation and experimentation.

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Decision-making skills

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Your ability to make choices about your health and wellness

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Goals

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A short-term or long-term plan of action that will guide you to the state of wellness you hope to reach

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Interpersonal skills

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Your ability to interact positively around with those around you.

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Refusal skills

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Your ability to stand up to pressures and influences that hinder your progress towards wellness

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Affordable Care Act

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Law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance, address cost reduction and affordability, improve the equality of healthcare, and introduce the Patient’s Bill of Rights

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Generic drug

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A medication that can be made by many different companies; costs less than brand-name medicines but may be just as effective

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Inpatient facility

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A hospital where patients reside overnight while receiving diagnosis, treatment, surgery, therapy, and rehabilitation

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Outpatient facility

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A health scare establishment where patients receive diagnosis or treatment, but do not reside overnight

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Patient’s Bill of Rights

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Summary of a patient’s rights regarding fair treatment and appropriate information

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Primary care physician

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A regular doctor who provides checkups, screenings, treatments, and prescriptions.

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Specialist

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Medical providers who are extensively trained in one or two areas of health; a physician may refer you to a specialist to seek specific treatments.

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What are the three stages of disease prevention? (In order)

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Primary, secondary, and tertiary

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What is primary prevention

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Actions taken before any signs or conditions

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What is secondary prevention

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Actions taken when engaging in risk factors

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What is tertiary prevention

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Actions taken after getting the condition

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What is the difference between signs and symptoms?

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Signs are visible and measurable. Symptoms are non-visible, non-measurable, and subjective.

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Life expectancy

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What age people are expected to live to in a country or place

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Life span

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How long someone lives for

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What is the difference between morbidity and mortality?

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Morbidity is the presence of a disease. Mortality is the death rate of a disease.

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What does SMART stand for?

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Specific, Measurable, Attainable/Achievable, Relevant, Time-Oriented

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What are the five stages of behavior change?

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Pre-contemplation, contemplating, preparation, action, maintenance

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List five risk behaviors that are common among teenagers based on the National Youth Survey.

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Unintentional and Intentional Injuries, alcohol and other drugs use, tobacco use, insufficient physical activity, dietary patterns that contribute to disease, sexual behaviors that result in unintended pregnancy/HIV/STDs

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What are the four major factors that influence behavioral change?

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Perceived degree of vulnerability, level of motivation, sense of control/self efficiency, perceived value of behavior change

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What are the top three causes of death for teenagers?

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Unintentional injuries/car accidents, suicide, homicide

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What are the top four causes of death in general?

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Heart disease, cancer, Covid, unintentional injury.

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