HL - Health HL 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Environment, Health Belief Model

• School: NMU
• Department: HL - Health
• Course: HL - Health HL 111
• Professor: Barbara Coleman

Document Summary

* a high level a person must progressively move higher on a continuum of positive health indicators. Health / wellness: ever changing process or trying to achieve one"s potential in each of the 6 interrelated dimensions. 6 dimensions of health: physical health: shape/size of my body, sense of responsiveness, susceptibility to disease, body"s ability to heal, social health: maintain satisfying personal relationships, give/receive love. *personal choices are not always totally within an individual"s control* factors that influence your health range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors that influence health status. Either helps attain, maintain or regain good health. Innate characteristics: age, race, ethnicity, metabolic rates, body structure & sex. Social factors: social/physical conditions in the environment in which people are born or live exposure to crime and violence availability to healthful foods and transportation living wages (1082$) Economic factors: quality education poor housing potential exposure unable to pay for good food/ warm clothes job insecurity.