Health and Wellness

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Health and Wellness
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USDHHS Healthy People Goals2010

• To increase quality and years of healthy life
• Promote healthy behaviors
• Promote healthy and safe communities
• To eliminate health disparities
• Improve systems for personal and public health
• Prevent and reduce diseases and disorders

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Health is

• a state of complete physical, mental and social
  well-being, not merely the absence of disease or
  infirmity (WHO, 1947)

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Models of Health and Illness

• Health-illness continuum
• Health belief model
• Health promotion model
• Basic human needs model
• Holistic health model

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Variables Influencing Beliefs Practices

• INTERNAL
• Developmental stage
• Intellectual background
• Concept of functioning
• Emotional factors
• Spiritual factors

• EXTERNAL
• Family practices
• Socioeconomic influence
• Cultural background
• Accessibility to care

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Levels of Preventive Care

• Primary Prevention
• Precedes disease aimed at health promotion
• Secondary Prevention
• Directed at early diagnosis and intervention
• Tertiary Prevention
• Goal is minimizing effects of disease or
  disability

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Health Promotion Methods

• Exercise regularly
• Put it in perspective
• Get in touch with yourself
• Relaxation
• Time Management
• Communication
• Prayer Meditation

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USA citizens approach to health
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Leading causes of death

• 1st Heart disease
• 2nd Cancer
• 3rd Stroke
• 4th Respiratory disease
• 5th Accidents
• 6th Diabetes

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USA Health Risks

• Obesity

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USA Health Risks

• Diabetes

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USA Health Risks

• Cancer Breast Prostate Lung Colon etc.

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USA Health Risks

• Asthma/COPD

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USA Health Risks

• Heart disease Hypertension Stroke

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Violence homicide, battering, auto accidents