HLTA02H3 Chapter 17: Chapter 17

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30 Apr 2011
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Chapter 17: well -being at mid-life: determinants of preventive health. Preventative health: powerful potential to reduce health care costs and delay or prevent the onset of established chronic disease. Mid-life: seen as transition, opportunity and challenge: heightened re-evaluation and reorientation, which involve turning points aimed at making the most of the second half of lives. demographic perspective: midlife- general age for having kids, and parents of midlife people are aging, and times of career transitions. morbidity at midlife ages- connected with many high profile diseases heart disease, diabetes, obesity, stroke and the beginnings of osteoporosis and arthritis, and other forms of cancer (breast, ovarian, prostate) disease- based biomedical model used to identify diseases, discovering underlying etiology, and then treating and hopefully curing the disease. continues to be a need for better understanding of steps taken to seek and attain health and well- being.

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