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