Health Promotion
Non-medical factors that influence health outcomes, including the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies and political systems. (WHO)
What are social determinants of health?
Follows the 24 hour rhythm of the sun
What is the circadian rhythm?
The brain's favorite macro
What are carbohydrates/glucose?
The form of motor coordination that develops first
What is gross motor?
A diagnostic test for sleep apnea.
What is Polysomnography?
X stopped smoking for 2 months, and recently started again after a very stressful holiday season. What stage of behavior change is X in according to the Transtheoretical Model of Change?
What is relapse?
Pregnancy, chronic conditions, stress, variable shift jobs
What are risk factors for poor sleep?
The microbes, such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, and their genes, that naturally live on our bodies and inside us (GI and reproductive tract)
What is the microbiome?
The ability to understand language
What is receptive language?
Focused on treatment of the entire person with holistic involvement that brings conventional (Western) and alternative approaches to healing
What is integrative health?
S recently lost 5 lbs and believes that it was because their office stopped giving out donuts every morning.They attribute their weight loss to which level of the Social Ecological model?
Organizational
The best way to treat obstructive sleep apnea
What is a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine?
Avoid taking with milk or dairy products
What are iron supplements?
The ability to understand that something out of sight still exists; develops at about 8 months
What is object permanence?
Experience greater than average risk of developing health problems due to marginalized sociocultural status, limited access to economic resources, and/or personal characteristics such as age and gender.
What are vulnerable populations?
Preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or in opportunities to achieve optimal health
What are health disparities?
Be cautious using these with older adults or folks taking medications that cause sleepiness
What are sleeping medications?
Helps with neural tube development in a fetus
What is folic acid/folate?
The age at which an infant uses the pincer grasp well
What is 9-10 months?
Irritability, lack of focus, increased risk of chronic illness, poor immune system function
What are consequences of poor sleep?
The degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others
What is health literacy?
Sleepwalking and other sleep disturbances
What are side effects of zolpidem and zalpelon?
Increases with increasing food prices
What is food insecurity?
One direction growth occurs in
What is cephalocaudal OR proximodistal?
A non-mainstream approach used instead of conventional medicine
and
A non-mainstream approach used together with conventional medicine
What are alternative therapies or practices?
and
What are complementary therapies or practices?