Dimensions of Health
Stages of Change
Glossary Terms
Factors That Shape Behavior
Portporri
100
Good physical fitness and confidence in one’s personal ability to take care of health problems.
What is Physical Health?
100
Individuals have no intentions of making a change in the next six months.
What is Pre-contemplation?
100
The sense of being in control of your life.
What is Locus of Control?
100
Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, values, and perceptions.
What is Predisposing Factors?
100
1st Goal To help individuals of all ages increase life expectancy and improve their quality of life. 2nd Goal To eliminate health disparities among different segments of the population.
What is Healthy People 2010?
200
Refers to both our emotional and mental states – that is, to our feelings and our thoughts.
What is Psychological Health?
200
Individuals are aware they have a problem behavior and are considering changing within the next six months.
What is Contemplation?
200
The belief in your ability to change and cope with challenge.
What is self efficacy?
200
Praise from others, encouragement, recognition, rewards, sense of achievement.
What is Reinforcing Factors?
200
Things you can do to maximize your health.
What is Use seat belts. Eat an extra fruit or vegetable every day. Get enough sleep. Take regular stress breaks. Lose a pound. If you’re a woman, examine your breasts regularly. If you’re a man, examine your testicles regularly. Get physical. Drink more water. Do a good deed.
300
The ability to identify one’s basic purpose in life and to achieve one’s full potential; the sense of connectedness to a greater power.
What is Spiritual Health?
300
Individuals intend to change a problem behavior within the next month.
What is Preparation?
300
Being sound in body, mind, and spirit. Not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.
What is Health?
300
Skills, resources, accessible facilities, physical capabilities, and mental capabilities.
What is Enabling factors?
300
The average life expectancy for Americans.
What is 77.4 years?
400
The ability to interact effectively with other people and the social environment, to develop satisfying interpersonal relationships, and to fulfill social roles.
What is Social Health?
400
Individuals are modifying their behavior according to their plan.
What is Action?
400
Purposeful, enjoyable living. A deliberate lifestyle choice characterized by personal responsibility and optimal enhancement of physical, mental, and spiritual health.
What is Wellness?
400
Having the attitude and belief that you can change something for the better even though factors are stacked against you.
What is Predisposing factors?
400
This ethnic group has a lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality rate, and greater risks for colon, rectal, and prostate cancer.
What is African Americans?
500
Your ability to think and learn from life experience, your openness to ideas, and your capacity to question and evaluate information.
What is Intellectual Health?
500
Individuals have continued to work at changing their behavior and have avoided relapse for at least six months.
What is Maintenance?
500
Measures that an individual can take when participating in risky behavior or prevent injury and unwanted risks.
What is Protection?
500
You are intrinsically motivated and place a high value on your personal sense of achievement.
What is Reinforcing factors.
500
This gender is more prone to lethal diseases, such as heart attacks, cancer, and liver failure.
What is male?