Health Sciences 1001A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Health Promotion, Sickle-Cell Disease, Infant Mortality

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1001A/B
• Professor: Shauna Burke

Document Summary

Part 1 establishing a basis for wellness. Chapter 1 taking charge of your health. Wellness the ability to live life fully, with vitality and meaning. Wellness is dynamic and multi- dimensional; it incorporates physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, interpersonal, and social, and environmental dimensions. As chronic diseased have become the leading cause of death in canada, people have recognized that they have great control over, and greater responsibility for, their health than ever before. The integrated pan-canadian living strategy"s vision is good health for all canadians. The broad goals of the strategy are to improve healthy weights, physical activity, and healthy eating among canadians. Health-related differences along people that have implications for wellness can be described in the context of gender, ethnicity, income and education, disability, geographic location, and sexual orientation. Although heredity, environment, and health care all play roles in wellness and disease, behavior can mitigate their effects.