Health Sciences 1001A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Valproate, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Alprazolam
1 Dec 2016
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Health: the overall condition of your body or mind and the presence or absence of illness or injury. Wellness: optimal health and vitality, encompassing all the dimensions of wellbeing: 2 important differences between health and wellness, health can be determined or influenced by factors beyond your control (ex. Genes, age, health care system, care you received as a child: wellness is largely determined by the decisions you make about how you live. Enhanced wellness involves making conscious decisions about risk factors: risk factor: a condition that increase a person"s chance of disease or. Health promotion: a process of enabling people to increase control over and that control disease injury improve their health: a means to achieve wellness. 6 interrelated dimensions of wellness: physical, emotional, intellectual, interpersonal, spiritual, environmental. Physical wellness: includes not just the overall condition of your body and the absence of disease but also you fitness level and ability to care for yourself.
