BIOL 1080 Chapter Notes - Chapter Lecture 4 Readings: Cardiovascular Disease
27 Feb 2018
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Health: dynamic, ever-changing process of trying to achieve individual potential in the physical, social, mental, occupational, emotional, environmental and spiritual dimensions. Wellness: similar to health, a dynamic, ever-changing process in which a person attempts to reach his or her potential in each of health"s components. Prevention is taking action to avoid becoming sick or less well later: i. e. immunization. Primary prevention: actions designed to stop problems before they start. Secondary prevention: intervention early in the development of a health problem to reduce symptoms or to halt its progression. Tertiary prevention: treatment or rehabilitation efforts aimed at limiting the effects of a disease. 4 major biases in medical research are: androcentricity: viewing the world from a male perspective, over-generalization: a study nds issues in one sex and generalizes the ndings in another, gender insensitivity: overlooking sex as an important variable. Tuesday, january 13, 2015: double standards: evaluation, treatment or measurement of the identical behaviours, traits or situations by different means.
