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• The six dimensions of health -✓✓physical, social, mental, emotional, spiritual,
environmental
• Nutrition -✓✓The process by which your body takes in and uses food
• Nutrients -✓✓Compounds in food that the body requires for proper growth,
maintenance, and functioning
• Wellness is a lifestyle or pattern of behaviors -✓✓Occurs through development
of each of the six dimensions of health
• Wellness nutrition focuses on a way to organize our lives to eat a balance diet of -
✓✓Fats, high fibers, such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains
• Wellness health is not just eating good food it is also -✓✓Affirmation of our
competency to care for ourselves
• Health promotion consists of strategies to -✓✓Raise the level of health, and focus
on lifestyle changes that will lead to new healthy and positive behaviors
• Health people 2020 Vision -✓✓a society in which all people live long, healthy
lives
• Health people 2020 mission -✓✓To improve health through strengthening policy
and practice
• Healthy people 2020 determinate -✓✓Physical environment, health devices,
biology and genetics, individual behavior, social enviornment
• Socioeconomic status is measured by -✓✓Occupation, income, and education
, • Primary prevention -✓✓Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever
occurring.
• Secondary prevention -✓✓Early detection to reduce or halt the effect of a disease
or illness
• Tertiary prevention -✓✓occurs after a disorder develops. The purpose is to
minimize further complications or to assist in the restoration of health.
• Health literacy -✓✓a person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health
information and services, and to use these resources to promote one's health and
wellness
• Formal education -✓✓Planned education
• Nonformal education -✓✓Organized teaching in clinics, community centers
• Informal education -✓✓Occur through daily activities
• Health context -✓✓takes into account the influence of cultural, social, and
individual factors on the acquisition of health literacy
• Healthcare client -✓✓People seeking medical care to maintain health
• Healthcare patient -✓✓People seeking medical care in the event of illness
• Six nutrient categories -✓✓carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, minerals,
water
• Essential nutrients -✓✓nutrients necessary for normal body functioning that must
be obtained from food
• Nonessential nutrients -✓✓Synthesized by the body
• What nutrients provide energy -✓✓carbohydrates, fats, protein