Health Sciences 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Promotion, Decision-Making, Health Belief Model
20 Apr 2016
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Identify and define the seven dimensions of health and wellness. List the lifestyle behaviours related to living longer. Compare and contrast behaviour change techniques that identify not only when, but how and why to change. Describe the role of decision making in making behaviour changes. Dimensions: physical, social, mental, occupational, emotional, environmental, spiritual. Health and sickness: defined by extremes: changing views of health: Health: more than not being sick: death due to disease: infectious and chronic. Health as wellness: putting quality into years: health, wellness: Achieving high level in each dimension: health and wellness: often used interchangeably, optimal conditions for successful behaviour change: Prevention: the key to future health: primary prevention, secondary prevention, tertiary prevention: Predisposing factors: ex: sex, race, income, family education. Enabling factors: ex: skills; abilities; physical, emotional, mental capabilities. Reinforcing factors: ex: support and encouragement from significant others. Understanding when to change vs. what to change.
