FCSE 3120 Lecture 1: PH1
24 Oct 2018
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Chapter 1- taking charge of your health successfully achieved . Clearly no knowledge is more crucial than knowledge about health, without it no other life goal can be. Examples of qualities and behaviors associated with the dimensions of wellness: physical. Intellectual: eating well, exercise, safe sex, emotional, self esteem, self confidence, optimism, communication, keep relationship, cultivate support, spiritual, compassion, fulfillment, joy, environmental, reducing waste, clean and natural, recycling. New opportunities for taking charge: 1900s versus today, morbidity and mortality rates. Infectious disease: a disease that can spread from person to person: life expectancy has nearly doubled. Impaired life: chronic disease: a disease that develops and continues over a long period of time. Life expectancy in 1900- 47 years old: infectious disease. Leading causes of death in the united states: heart disease- 3. 7, cancer- 22. 9, chronic lower respiratory- 5. 7, stroke- 5. 2, accidents- 4. 9% Lifestyle and environmental contributors to death among americans: tobacco- 19. 1, obesity- 8. 8, alcohol consumption- 2. 6, microbial agents- 2. 3%
