Fundamentals of Health and Wellness Chapter One
Wellness is not a dynamic process
False- it is
The World Health Organization's definition of health does not include mental well-being
False-it does
Incidence rates are the predominance of a particular disease
False: # of new cases of illness in a particular time period
The transtheoretical model identifies three stages of change
False: 6 Precontiplation Contemplation Preparation Action Maintenance Termination
Healthy People 2020 lists eight leading indicators of health
False: 7 Goals: live longer & eliminate health disparities
Health is best defined as the absence of disease
False: A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity according to WHO
The leading causes of death today are infectious diseases
False: Heart attack and cancer 1900s: TB & pnemonia
Holistic practitioners recognize that spiritual feelings and experiences have no place in understanding physical health
False: It does
The holistic view of health is a revolutionary new idea
False: It has been around forever
Holistic Medicine is antiscientific
False: It is not antiscientific because there is a lot of science behind it
Vital statistics are determined by the number of incidences of vitamins taken and the prevalence of doctors in the area
False: Measure health status of population Birth, death, disease, marriage health
Morbidity refers to the number of deaths in the population
False: Mortality Morbidity focuses on illnesses
The medical model of health is concerned with social problems
False: The Five D's Death Disease Discomfort Disability Dissatisfaction
According to the holistic view of health, a person with a headache would take an aspirin to relieve the pain
False: They would try to find cause and work to reduce pain
The holistic approach to health emphasizes medical care
False: emphasizes self-healing
According to the holistic view, health is a state of optimum or positive wellness
True
Diseases such as heart disease and cancer are called lifestyle diseases
True
Experts commonly refer to six dimensions of wellness as emotional, intellectual, spiritual, occupational, social, and physical
True
Headaches often are caused by emotional stress
True
Health encompasses not only the body, but also emotions, thoughts, attitudes, and feelings
True
Health is an ongoing, lifelong process
True
Health recognizes the interrelatedness of physical, psychological, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental factors
True
Many infectious diseases that were once among the leading causes of death in the United States have now been virtually eradicated
True
Such information as morbidity, mortality, and incidence and prevalence of diseases can be used to assess the health of a population
True
The World Health Organization's definition of health emphasizes the concept of "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being"
True
The environmental health model focuses on conditions outside the individual
True
The health belief model is one way to explain and predict preventive health behaivor
True
The holistic approach emphasizes self-healing and the prevention of illness rather than the treatment of symptoms and disease
True
The holistic approach to health defines health in terms of the whole person
True
The holistic view of health views wellness as the result of interaction among the physical, psychological, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental factors in a person's life
True
The preferred way to deal with lifestyle diseases is to prevent them
True
