Definitions of Health
This organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.”
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
Name one example of a social determinant of health (besides income)?
What is education, housing, employment, social support, access to healthcare etc.?
This model uses a pyramid to represent human needs.
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
This type of stress is positive and can enhance performance.
What is eustress?
These are behaviors people can change to reduce chronic disease risk.
What are modifiable risk factors?
This term refers to a person’s subjective experience of feeling unwell.
What is illness?
This social determinant is considered the most influential on health outcomes, affecting access to food, housing, education, and healthcare.
What is income?
This model aims to explain why people do or do not engage in health-promoting behaviors.
What is the Health Belief Model?
These are unconscious strategies used to protect oneself from stress.
What are defense mechanisms?
This behavior is the leading preventable cause of death in Canada.
What is smoking?
The traditional medical model defines health as the absence of this.
What is disease?
This charter outlines five action areas to promote health, including building healthy public policy.
What is the Ottawa Charter?
This model includes stages like precontemplation and maintenance.
What is the Behaviour Change Model (Transtheoretical Model)?
Nurses use these types of goals to help patients create effective wellness plans.
What are SMART goals?
This term refers to having two or more chronic diseases.
What is multi-morbidity?
Health is not just the absence of disease but includes this ability to cope with environmental changes.
What is adaptation?
Nurses advocate for this to reduce health disparities and promote equity
What is social justice?
This model views health as a balance of body, mind, spirit, and environment.
What is the Holistic Health Model?
This automatic bodily response to perceived threats increases heart rate, respiration, and glucose, preparing the body for action.
What is fight or flight response? Or sympathetic nervous system response
These three levels of prevention guide nursing interventions.
What are primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention?
The continuum model views health and illness as this kind of experience.
What is dynamic or a spectrum?
Nurses use this type of care to address cultural and social needs.
What is culturally competent care?
This model focuses on three main areas: individual characteristics and experiences, behavior-specific cognitions and affect, and behavioral outcomes.
What is the Health Promotion Model?
This nursing theory focuses on client system stability in response to stress.
What is Neuman’s Systems Model?
These strategies — including education, policy changes, and community programs — aim to reduce modifiable risk factors and promote healthier lifestyles across populations.
What are public health strategies?