Health - Answers overall condition of body or mind.
-Determined out of your control
Wellness - Answers optimal health and vitality.
-making conscious decisions that affect risk factors
Dimension of Wellness - Answers Physical, Emotional, Cultural, Intellectual, Interpersonal,
Spiritual, Enviromental, Financial, and Occupational
Physical Wellness - Answers overall condition and the absence of disease, but your fitness level
and your ability to care for yourself.
Emotional Wellness - Answers dynamic and involves the ups and downs of living.
Self-acceptance - Answers is your personal satisfaction with yourself--it might exclude society's
expectations
Self-esteem - Answers relates to the way you think others perceive you
self-confidence - Answers both acceptance and esteem.
Intellectual Wellness - Answers -challenge their minds, detect problems, find solutions, and
directs behavior. They never stop learning. Often they discover new things about themselves.
Interpersonal Wellness - Answers Satisfying and supportive relationships are important to
physical and emotional wellness. Learning good communication skills, developing the capacity
for intimacy, and cultivating a supportive network are all important.
Cultural Wellness - Answers the way you interact with others who are different from you in
terms of ethnicity, religion, gender, sex orientation, age, and customs (practices).
Spiritual Wellness - Answers is to possess a set of guiding beliefs, principles, or values that give
meaning and purpose to your life, especially difficult times. Focuses on positive aspects of life
Environmental Wellness - Answers defined by the livability for your surroundings. Protecting
yourself against hazards around your society
morbidity rate - Answers the relative incidence of disease among a population
risk factor - Answers a condition that increases your chances of disease or injury
mortality rates - Answers the number of deaths in a population in a given period of time;usually
expressed as a ratio, such as 75 deaths per 1000 members of the population
, infectious disease - Answers a disease that can spread from person to person
impaired life - Answers the period of a person's life when he or she may not be able to function
fully due to disease or disability
chronic disease - Answers disease that develops and continues over a long period of time. EX:
heart disease or cancer
Leading cause of death - Answers heart disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease
Contributers to death - Answers tobacco, obesity, and alcohol
Leading cause of death ages 15-24 - Answers accidents, suicide, homicide
health promotion - Answers process to promote health to people
Healthy 2020 - Answers -eliminate preventable disease, injuries, and premature death
-achieve health equity
-increasing quality and promoting health behavior
sex - Answers the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women
gender - Answers the roles, behavior, activities, and attributes that a given society considered
appropriate for men and women
ethnicity - Answers the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common cultural
tradition. EX: Latino
Factors that influence wellness - Answers -health habits
-heredity/family history
-Enviroment
-Access to healthcare
-Behavior can make a difference
-Taking personal responsibility for you wellness
What is stress? - Answers situations that trigger physical and emotional reactions.
Stressors - Answers the reactions themselves
Example Stress response - Answers racing heart rate
Physical Responses to Stressors - Answers Nervous and Endocrine