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Health
The overall condition of body or mind and the presence or absence of illness or injury.
Wellness
Optimal health and vitality, encompassing all the dimensions of well-being, depending on conscious decisions affecting risk factors.
Dimensions of Wellness
Nine interrelated dimensions that interact continuously, where changes in one dimension can affect others.
Physical Wellness
Involves eating well, exercising, getting enough sleep, avoiding harmful habits, and recognizing disease symptoms.
Interpersonal Wellness
Involves communication skills, capacity for intimacy, and maintaining satisfying relationships.
Emotional Wellness
Characterized by optimism, trust, self-esteem, and the ability to understand and share feelings.
Chronic Disease
A disease that develops and continues over a long period.
Life Expectancy
The period of time a member of a given population is expected to live.
Health Promotion
The process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants.
Affordable Care Act (ACA)
A law enacted in 2010 aimed at improving health care access and affordability.
Health Disparities
Differences in health outcomes linked to social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage.
Behavior Change
Cultivating healthy behaviors while working to overcome unhealthy ones.
SMART Goals
Goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time frame-specific.
Stages of Change Model
A model outlining stages people go through in making health-related behavior changes: Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance, Termination.
Relapse
When individuals fall back into previous stages of behavior change after attempting to change.
Lifestyle Management
Strategies to improve wellness by adopting healthier behaviors and managing risk factors.
Personal Health Behaviors
Actions taken by individuals that can impact their health positively or negatively.
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