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Health Promotion
Health Behaviors
Preventive and Health-Promoting Behaviors
Health Compromising Behaviors
Stress
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a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
What is the WHO's definition of health?
100
These are performed automatically and set in usually around the ages of 11-12
What are health habits?
100
A body lesion at the organic level, resulting from an acute exposure to energy (mechanical, thermal, electrical, chemical or radiant) in amounts that exceed the threshold of physiological tolerance
What is an injury?
100
Repeatedly self-administering, resulting in tolerance, withdrawal, and compulsive behaviour
What is substance dependency
100
A negative emotional experience accompanied by predictable biochemical, physiological, cognitive, and behavioural changes that are directed either toward altering the stressful event or accommodating to its effects
What is stress?
200
Peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable eco-system, sustainable resources, social justice, and equity.
What are the fundamental conditions and resources for health?
200
Preventing an illness before it begins by: (1) Behaviour changing methods (2) Stoping people from developing poor health habits
What is primary prevention?
200
Includes all efforts aimed at treating and rehabilitating injured people or in some cases, the perpetrators of violence. It is concerned with the period after an injury event has occurred
What is tertiary prevention?
200
pinpoint or dilated pupils changes in core body temperature (hypothermia or hyperthermia) changes in blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate bluish skin loss of consciousness which may lead to coma seizures
What are symptoms of overdose?
200
Fight or flight General Adaptation Syndrome Tend and Befriend
What are three models used to study stress?
300
Enabling people to increase control over and improve their health
What is health promotion?
300
The belief that one is able to control one’s practice of a particular behaviour
What is self-efficacy?
300
A Canadian independent, knowledge-based, charitable organization dedicated to the cause of safety
What is the Canada Safety Council?
300
an approach that focuses on the risks and consequences of substance use rather than on the use itself
What is harm reduction?
300
The change that occurs through autonomic, neuroendocrine, and/or immune responses as a result of stress.
What is reactivity?
400
Conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels, which are themselves influenced by policy choices
What are the social determinants of health?
400
Whether a person practices a particular health behaviour by knowing two factors: whether the person perceives a personal health threat and whether the person believes that a particular health practice will be effective in reducing that threat.
What is the health belief model?
400
A common disorder in which you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep
What is sleep apnea?
400
An umbrella term that describes a range of disabilities that may affect individuals who were exposed to alcohol in their mother’s womb.
What is FASD?
400
Physiological systems in the body fluctuate to meet demands from stress
What is allostasis?
500
The study of the frequency, distribution, and causes of diseases (infectious and non-infectious) in a population
What is epidemiology?
500
A specific behavioural intention that highlights the how, when, and where of a behaviour, and also includes “if-then” contingency plans to deal with anticipated barriers to the behaviour
What are implementation intentions?
500
mental health disorders medications, such as antidepressants or pain medications conditions such as cancer, heart disease, and asthma chronic pain restless leg syndrome obstructive sleep apnea
What are medical causes for insomnia?
500
window of vulnerability self-presentation process behaviours are pleasurable development of behaviours occurs gradually substance abuse predicted by some of the same factors problem behaviours are related to the larger social structure in which they occur 
What are characteristics of health compromising behaviours?
500
When an organism confronts a stressor, it mobilizes itself for action. The response itself is nonspecific with respect to the stressor; that is, regardless of the cause of the threat, the individual will respond with the same physiological pattern of reactions. Over time, with repeated or prolonged exposure to stress, there will be wear and tear on the system.
What is Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome