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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.