Holistic Health
Understanding Human Needs
Cross Cultural Terms and Principles
Terms
Definition
100

Physical Fitness

What keeps us alert and energetic in activities of daily living?

100

Food, Water, Sleep, and Waste Elimination

What are Biological Needs?

100

Language, Communication Style, Belief System, Customs, Attitudes, Perceptions, and Values.

What are some thing that cultural groups share amongst each other?

100

Infirmity

What is the term for "unsound or unhealthy state of being"?

100

Pertaining to the whole considering all factors.

What is "holisitic"?

200

Routine Physicals, Adequate Rest, Good Nutrition, and etc. 

What are some of the ways physical fitness can be achieved?

200

Safety Needs

What is the term for needs that depend on feeling secure and avoiding bodily harm and injury?

200

It is necessary to ask permission to move near another person.

What are some of the restricing touch and physical closeness guidelines in Laotian?

200

Aerobic

What is the term for "requiring oxygen"?

200

Process of expelling or removing, especially of waste products from the body. 

What is "elimination"?

300

Nutrition

What is the term for the type of science that studies the way the food you eat nourishes your body?

300

Stimulation of the Five Senses (Hearing,Seeing, Feeling, Smelling, Tasting) as Well as Intellectual Stimulation.

What are Sensory Needs?

300

Shake hands or hug

What is the greeting guidelines for Latin Americans?

300

Physiological 

What is the term for "pertaining to normal body functions"?

300

Pertaining to the mind

What is "psychological"?

400

What event caused the stress?, Why you feel stress?, How much stress you are feeling?, If you feel negatively or positively about the situation?

How are stressors identified?

400

Motor Activity

What are those needs called that depend on Movement or Exercise of the Body?

400

Eye contact is avoided as a form of respect

What is the eye contact guidelines for Japanese, Southeast Asians, and Hispanics?

400

Value

What is the term for "importance and worth".

400

Tendency to start fights and quarrels or to attack without reason

What is "Agressiveness" ?

500

Experience meaning and purpose in life

What is the meaning of Sprititual Fitness?

500

A slowing heartbeat, deeper breaths, fewer abnormal heartbeats, lowered blood pressure, and an increased sense of well being. 

What effects does pet stroking/petting have on patients?

500

Focus on treating with medication, surgery, diet, and exercise.

What type of medicinal rituals or beliefs are part of European culture?

500

Hostility

What is the term for "unfriendliness or ill will toward another"?

500

Loving to Excess

What is "idolizing"?