Lifestyle Factors Affecting Health
What is the substance in cigarette smoke reduces the blood's ability to carry oxygen?
Carbon monoxide
What are the three components of the Health Promoting Schools Model?
Curriculum, School Organisation and Partnerships
What personal skill helps individuals adapt positively to stress and setbacks?
Resilience
Medicine practiced by doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals is which type of health care?
Orthodox health care
Define cognitive dissonance
The discomfort we feel when our beliefs conflict with our actions
Excessive alcohol use can increase the risk chronic disease in which organ?
The liver
A school encouraging students to ride bikes to school is focusing on which component of the Health Promoting Schools Model?
School organisation/ethos
Refusing to engage in harmful behaviours and standing up for personal rights shows what coping skill?
Assertiveness
Give an example of complementary medicine
Acupuncture, meditation, herbal remedies
A smoker who knows cigarettes are harmful but continues smoking might try to reduce dissonance by saying "it helps me relax". What are they doing to their behaviour?
Justifying their behaviour
Consuming foods high in saturated fats and sugars contributes directly to what condition?
Obesity
Teaching about balanced diets in health class demonstrates which component of the Health Promoting Schools Model?
Curriculum, teaching, and learning
Being able to interact effectively with others and form healthy relationships shows what ability?
Social competence.
Orthodox health care
What is a social norm?
Shared expectations about how people should behave in society
Australian guidelines recommend at least how many minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity for 13-17 year olds daily?
60 minutes
Inviting local health professionals to run a seminar at school demonstrates which component of the Health Promoting Schools Model?
Partnerships with the community
Getting vaccinated is an example of which level of prevention?
Primary prevention
A combination of complementary and orthodox treatments is called what?
Integrative medicine
The idea that "everyone drinks at parties" is an example of what type of norm?
Social norm
Overexposure to the sun without protection is the primary cause of what lifestyle disease?
Skin cancer
The overall aim of the Health Promoting Schools Model is to create what kind of environment?
A supportive environment for health
What type of communication helps young people resist peer pressure to smoke by giving a confident "no"
Assertive communication
A benefit of complementary therapies is that they often focus on treating the whole person. This is called ...?
Holistic health
Media campaigns that encourage wearing seatbelts or not smoking aim to influence whose behaviours/norms?
The communities