Wellness

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Wellness

• Discuss the wellness approach to healthy living.
• Identify benefits of living a wellness lifestyle.
• Describe the dimensions of wellness.
• Cite evidence of the relationship between
  physical health problems and social, emotional,
  and spiritual stressors.
• Identify health disparities that exist in the
  United States.
• Compare and contrast the major influences on the
  health of Americans today with those of Americans
  of the past.

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Wellness (cont.)

• Identify and discuss the main wellness challenges
  for Americans.
• Identify obvious and subtle factors that help
  shape behavior.
• Discuss some of the underlying assumptions of
  lifestyle change.
• Identify and describe the six stages of change.
• Describe strategies that can be useful to
  designing and implementing an action plan for
  change.

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Wellness

• The continuous, active process of becoming aware
  of the different areas in ones life, identifying
  the areas that need improvement and then making
  choices that will facilitate attainment of a
  higher level of health and well-being.

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Past vs. Today

• Treatment instead of prevention
• Active in health care
• Exercise control over wellness (risk factors)
• Partners with health provider
• Individual responsible for wellness

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Components of Wellness
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Spiritual

• Is the belief in a source of value that
  transcends the boundaries of the self but also
  nurtures the self.
• Grow, learn, meet new challenges
• Strong sense of values, ethics, morals

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Social

• Having the ability to interact successfully with
  people and ones personal environment.
• Support vs. Non-support

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Physical

• Ability to carry out daily tasks, develop
  cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness, maintain
  adequate nutrition and a healthy body fat level,
  and avoid abusing alcohol and other drugs or
  using tobacco products.

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Emotional

• The ability to control stress and to express
  emotions appropriately and comfortably.
• Recognize and except feelings.
• Set backs and failures.

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Intellectual

• The ability to learn and use information
  effectively for personal, family, and career
  development.
• Behavior gap
• Locus of control
• Self-efficacy

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Occupational

• The ability to achieve balance between work and
  leisure time.
• We dont live to work, we work to live.

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Environmental

• The ability to promote health measures that
  improve the standard of living and quality of
  life in the community, including laws and
  agencies that safeguard the physical environment.
• Past vs. Present
• Health disparities

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Integrating the 7 Components

• Body, mind, and spirit
• If one breaks down, the whole system is
  threatened.
• Illness and its mental, social, and spiritual
  aspects
• Negative feelings
• Psychosomatic diseases.

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The Wellness Challenge

• Health problems today lifestyle diseases.
• Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke leading cause
  of death in US.
• Chronic Diseases heart disease, diabetes,
  arthritis, hypertension.
• Acute Illness appendicitis, pneumonia,
  influenza.

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Other Causes of Death

• (age 15-24) Accidents, homicide, and suicide.
  77 motor vehicle deaths.
• (age 25-44) Accidents, cancer, heart disease,
  suicide, HIV, and homicide.
• Negative lifestyle

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12 Steps for Promoting Health and Improve the
Quality of Life

• Exercise regularly.
• Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, high fiber
  foods, and whole grains and drink more water.
• Limit animal fat, cholesterol, and sodium in the
  diet.
• Supplement the diet with calcium and antioxidant
  vitamins.
• Pursue and maintain ideal body weight.
• Stop illegal drug use and abstain from or limit
  alcohol consumption.

• Terminate smoking and use of smokeless tobacco.
• Avoid excessive sun exposure or wear sunblock.
• Fasten seat belts.
• Obtain good prenatal health care.
• Regularly have medical checkups and perform
  self-exams.
• Keep immunizations up-to-date.

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Risk Factors Associated with Pre-mature Death and
Chronic Illness

• Cigarette Smoking 20 of all deaths and most
  preventable.
• Diet low in saturate fat and high in fruits,
  vegetables, and grain products.
• Sedentary Lifestyle less than 10 regular
  vigorous activity, 25 5 or more days for 30
  minutes, 25 do not partake in any regular
  activity.

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Achieving Lifestyle Change

• Behavior is learned.
• Obvious influences.
• Outside influences.
• Subliminal messages.
• Psychological need.
• Reactance motivation.
• Bad habits can be unlearned and new habits can be
  learned.

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Self Help Plan

• A self help approach assumes that individuals can
  manage their lifestyle changes and can learn to
  control those features in the environment that
  are detrimental to health.
• Successful lifestyle change is almost impossible
  to achieve without a plan.
• Page 13.

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Six Stages of Change

• (Figure 1-4, page 14)
• Precontemplation
• Contemplation
• Preparation
• Action
• Maintenance
• Termination

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Action Strategies

• Countering
• Avoidance
• Reminders
• Contracting
• Shaping up
• Support groups