DEFINITIONS to Remember for KI 2023 - FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH EDUCATION

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms from KI 2023 Foundations of Health Education notes.

Advocacy

the attempt to bring about social and/or organizational change

Benevolence

doing something good.

Chronic Disease

Conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both; long-term and may be controlled but not necessarily curable; also called noninfectious or non-communicable because it is not spread.

Communicable Disease

a disease that can be transmitted from one host to another; also called infectious or transmittable disease.

Community health

health characteristics specific to a group of people

Dynamic

Ever changing; constant change, activity, or progress

Empower

assisting an individual in becoming stronger and more confident

Empowerment

the gain of control over life and/or components of one’s life

Epidemic

an unexpectedly large number of cases of an illness or specific health-related event/behavior

Ethics

relating to moral principles; study of morals or morality; right/wrong; good/evil

Fitness

the level of physical ability as a result of exercise and proper nutrition

Health

a dynamic state of complete physical, mental, spiritual, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Health education

Teaching and counseling on healthy living; any planned learning experiences based on sound theories that provide individuals, groups, and communities the opportunity to acquire information and skills needed to make quality health decisions.

Health literacy

the wide range of skills and competencies that people develop over their lifetimes to seek out, comprehend, evaluate, and use health information and concepts to make informed choices, reduce health risks, and increase quality of life. Individuals can access, interpret, and understand basic health information and the skills to promote health.

Health promotion

the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health; any planned combination of educational, political, environmental, regulatory, or organizational mechanisms that support actions, practices and conditions of healthy living.

Holistic

pertaining to the person as a whole, unified being.

Illness

a condition that prevents your body or mind from working normally; refers to a negative state

Infirmity

physical weakness or ailment

Life expectancy

estimated period that a person may expect to live

Malevolence

doing something bad

Morbidity

Having an illness or condition; symptomatic or unhealthy

Comorbidity

more than one disease/condition is present in a person at the same time

Mortality

the quality or state of being mortal; death or certain to die

Multicausation

many causes

Needs-assessment

program planning component that analyzes the characteristics of an environment for which a program will be implemented (translation: analyzing a population so we know what is needed)

Pandemic

outbreak of a health illness or condition over a large geographical area, such as a continent.

Personal health

individualized health specific to that person

Physical education (PE)

courses in the curriculum that utilizes learning in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains in a play or movement exploration setting

Public health

study and practice of addressing threats to the health of a community; health characteristics that extend to various communities.

Quarantine

Isolation and restriction of movement among people with the intent to prevent the spread of illness or disease.

Quackery

A practice that sells false hope; health or medical practices known to be fraudulent or ignorant.

Wellness

relates to the level of health of each component of one’s life; refers to a positive state.