Health - ANSWER: ➡ state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being; not just the
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absence of disease
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biobehavioral health - ANSWER: ➡ salutogenic; places health into a developmental context
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Life expectancy; Efficiency - ANSWER: ➡ US ranks worst among 11 wealthy nations
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measured by:
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Efficiency - ANSWER: ➡ communication lack within the medical field; financially;
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preventative health
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high life expectancy - ANSWER: ➡ ethnic majorities in cities
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low life expectancy - ANSWER: ➡ rural, disadvantaged minorities such as LGBTQ
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European ancestry - ANSWER: ➡ live longer than African Americans (both shorter than
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many other countries)
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Middle-aged women - ANSWER: ➡ higher disease/disability rates than men
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Preventable Injury and Death in US - ANSWER: ➡ control of underage and excess of alcohol,
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elimination of firearms and tobacco, better nutrition and exercise, reduce risky sexual
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behaviors, full access to immunizations for infectious diseases
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Healthy People 2020 - ANSWER: ➡ adolescent health, physical activity, nutrition and weight
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status, injury and violence prevention, sleep health
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, Sleep Health - ANSWER: ➡ hours of start time changed: later time start for middle
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schoolers; grades, academic achieving increases as a result
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Prehistoric Period - ANSWER: ➡ dualistic, good and evil spirits (shaman); sorcery, exorcism,
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trephination
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trephination - ANSWER: ➡ where holes are drilled into the skull to 'release' the spirits; used
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today to release brain swelling from trauma; releases pressure
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ancient Egypt - ANSWER: ➡ body channels, fluids running through the body; bloodletting
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bloodletting - ANSWER: ➡ cut patient and let blood drain out; now used for iron deficiency
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(prevents cancer); leech therapy
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Ancient Greece - ANSWER: ➡ monist- mind and body are connected; hippocrates, scientific
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approach to healing; humoral theory; nature is key for healing (smells the sea, gets fresh air
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for healing)
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humoral theory - ANSWER: ➡ blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm is all linked to certain
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kinds of temperaments; link between a bodily state to your personality
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ancient china - ANSWER: ➡ traditional chinese medicine (TCM); internal harmony essential
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for good health; qi, acupuncture, herbal therapy, meditation
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ancient India - ANSWER: ➡ ayurveda, buddha; body represents entire universe
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ayurveda - ANSWER: ➡ oldest known medical system
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