KINE 250 Midterm: KINE 250 Midterm Study Guide
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Health: ever-changing process of achieving individual potential in the physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and environmental dimensions. Achievement of the highest level of health possible in each of the several dimensions. Healthy people 2020 : written to improve quality and years of life for all americans. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable diseases. Achieve high equity, eliminate disparities, and improve health of all groups. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all. Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages. Public health achievements of the 20th century. Factors: reduced access to health care, poor healthy behaviors, social inequity, and poverty. Perception of health prior to the twentieth century. Views health status on both the individual and biological organ perspective. Focuses on treatment / cure rather than prevention. Views health as a result of the individual"s interactions with the physical environment.
