Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anomie Belle, Transtheoretical Model, 6 Years
2 Nov 2015
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What is wellness: an expanded idea of health, the ability to live life fully, with vitality and meaning, largely determined by the decisions you make about how you live your life, not a static goal but a dynamic process of change and growth (constantly changing, encompasses 7* interrelated dimensions. Early to mid 1900s: life expectancy = 58. 8 yrs (m), 60. 6 yrs (f, health threats = infectious diseases (e. g. , cholera, tuberculosis, pneumonia, spread due to lack of clean water, poor sewage removal, crowding, unsanitary food preparation, etc, growing trade between countries moved diseases from one to the other, sources of infectious disease soon discovered, became easier to control spread of disease, public health became important, adoption of vaccinations and development of antibiotics allowed western society to control the major causes of morbidity (illness or disease) and mortality (death, people began to expect that modern medicine could conquer any illness (in some ways, this belief holds true today)
