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2.  The World Health Organization (1947):
“Health is a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely
the absence of disease or infirmity.”
 Wellness is the process of moving toward
optimal health.
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3.  The wellness continuum helps distinguish
between the medical model of health and
the wellness concept; most individuals move
back and forth across the continuum from
illness to wellness.
 The wellness continuum includes prevention,
behaviors, illness or disease, and a neutral
point.
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4. Be able to label both ends and the middle. Know which
end is which…

5.  The body has mechanisms that regulate
physiological processes within certain limits
for optimal functioning.
 Homeostasis is the regulation of body systems
to produce a relatively constant physiological
state.
 Homeostatic mechanisms are responsible for
maintaining normal blood pressure, body
temperature, heart rate, and blood glucose
levels.
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6. These dimensions are interdependent i.e., they interact
and overlap with each other to produce health
Environmental
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Physical
Social
Mental
Emotional
Spiritual
HEALTH

7.  Emotional wellness requires understanding
emotions and coping with problems that arise
in everyday life.
 Intellectual wellness involves having a mind
open to new ideas and concepts.
 Spiritual wellness is the state of harmony
between you and others.
 Occupational wellness is being able to enjoy
what you are doing to earn a living or to
contribute to society.
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8.  Social wellness is the ability to perform
social roles effectively, comfortably, and
without harming others.
 Physical wellness is a healthy body
maintained by eating right, exercising
regularly, avoiding harmful habits, making
informed and responsible decisions about
health, seeking medical care when needed,
and participating in activities that help to
prevent illness.
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9.  Health is the absence of one or more of the “five
Ds”—death, disease, discomfort, disability, and
dissatisfaction.
 Relies almost exclusively on biological
explanations of disease and illness and on
interpreting them in terms of malfunction.

10. Terminology
 Vital statistics measure the health status of
a population.
 Prevalence describes the predominance of a
disease in a population.

11.  Incidence means the occurrence of particular
diseases; the frequency at which certain
diseases occur; the number of people who
contract a disease or illness within a specific
given period of time.
 Morbidity data are statistics on the number of
people suffering from illness in a given
population.
 Mortality data are the number of deaths in a
given population.

12.  Based on analyses of ecosystems and
environmental risks to health, such as
socioeconomic status (SES), level of education,
and various environmental factors.
 Health is defined in terms of the quality of a
person’s adaptation to the environment as
conditions change.

13.  Focuses on conditions outside the individual that
affect his or her health, such as quality of air
and water, living conditions, exposure to
harmful substances, SES, social relationships,
and the available health care system.

14.  Encompasses the physiological, mental,
emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental
aspects of individuals and communities.
 Emphasizes that each person has the capability
and the responsibility for optimizing his or her
sense of well-being, practicing self-healing, and
creating feelings and conditions that help
prevent disease and promote and maintain
health.

15.  Positive wellness.
 Holistic health, or wellness, is a dynamic,
ongoing process.

16.  Today, “lifestyle diseases,” that is, chronic
diseases caused by lifestyle behaviors, are the
leading causes of illness and death.
 Taking responsibility for our behaviors means
changing our negative lifestyles to positive
lifestyles; by doing so, we can avoid illness and
achieve wellness, or optimal health.

17.  Leading the list of life-shortening behaviors is
tobacco use, which is responsible for more than
400,000 deaths among Americans per year.
 Unhealthy diet and activity patterns contribute
to the next highest number of deaths in the
United States after tobacco.
Associated with heart disease, high blood pressure,
stroke, diabetes, and cancer

18.  Transmission of infectious disease accounts for
more than 120,000 deaths annually.
 Overuse of antibiotics
 Environmental factors
 Firearms
 Motor vehicle accidents
 Lack of access to health care

19.  Diabetes is a disease in which the amount
of sugar in the blood increases to
unhealthy levels due to a malfunction in
the body’s sugar-regulating system.
 Type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent) was
formerly referred to as “juvenile
diabetes.”
 Type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent)
was formerly referred to as “maturity
onset” diabetes.
Associated with being overweight

20.  Nearsightedness is when vision is affected
by lifestyle.
 During early development, a child’s eyes
adapt to the visual information they
receive from the environment.
 Watching TV and computer screens
closely and reading books, magazines, and
newspapers for many hours daily cause
myopia.

21.  Factors include:
Perceived susceptibility
Perceived seriousness
Perceived benefits of taking action
Barriers to taking action
Cues to action

22.  Acknowledges that behavior change goes
through the following stages:
Precontemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
Termination

23.  No smoking
 Get 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night
 Maintain a healthy body weight
 Get regular Yoga and other exercises
 Stress Management
 Diet and Life style changes
 Living and letting others leave –Ecofriendly Life

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