Health Review- Chapter 1

Wellness

optimal health and vitality, encompassing all the dimensions of well being

Affordable Care Act

Act made to try and make health insurance affordable. Allows health insurance places to facilitate the purchase of insurance at the state level, low income customers have federal help with premiums, etc

Healthy People 2030

dissolve preventable diseases and disabilities, health equity, environments that promote good health, healthy development, healthy behaviors, etc

Factors that influence wellness:

healthy habits, family history, environmental, healthcare access, and personal health behaviors

methods for achieving wellness through lifestyle management

making and sticking to a plan that will change a bad habit and improve wellness

ways to promote lifelong wellness for yourself and your environment

• motivate yourself

• give yourself rewards

• make a plan

• do healthy activities, like getting at least 8,000 steps a day

9 dimensions of wellness

• Intellectual, like curiosity

• Physical, like exercising and eating well

• Spiritual, like having love and compassion

• Occupational, like enjoying activities

• Emotional, like self acceptance

• Cultural, like valuing and having a cultural identity

• Finacial, like avoiding dept

• Interpersonal, like good communication skills

• Environmental, like trying to recycle

health

the overall condition of body or mind and the presence or absence of illness or injury

Health disparities are linked to

social, economic, and environmental disadvantage, also biological and cultural, like race

stages of change model

precontemplation > contemplation > preparation > action > maintenance > termination

Making of a plan

1. Monitor behavior and gather data

2. Analyze data and find patterns

3. Be SMART( specific, measurable, attanable, realistic, and tie frame specific)

4. Plan of action

5. Make a personal contract