Chapter 1: Living a Healthy Lifestyle
Key concepts to review:
1. What are health and wellness?
• Health: the absence of disease or illness, merges and balances 6 physical and psychological dimension of health, physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual and environmental.
● Wellnes...
Chapter 1: Living a Healthy Lifestyle
Key concepts to review:
1. What are health and wellness?
• Health: the absence of disease or illness, merges and balances 6 physical
and psychological dimension of health, physical, intellectual, emotional,
social, spiritual and environmental.
● Wellness: lifestyle (pattern of behaviors) that enhances level of health.
● Pasteurization and sanitation have reduced risk of foodborne and environmental
hazards.
● Rene Dubos (1968) Definition of Health
○ “Health is quality of life involving social, emotional, mental, spiritual,
and biologic fitness on the part of the individual, which results from
adaptations to the environment.”
● 6 Dimensions of Health
○ Physical Health: efficient body functioning, maintaining immunity to
disease and meet energy requirements
○ Intellectual Health: use of intellectual abilities to learn and adapt to
environment
○ Emotional Health: ability to control emotions, express or suppress
emotions appropriately.
○ Social Health: interactions and relationships with other and sustaining
relationship with people.
○ Spiritual Health: cultural beliefs about the purpose of life, give purpose
to human existence.
○ Environmental Health: external factors that impact living and work
setting, like ethnicity, education, income, and occupation.
2. Healthy People 2020: What is its vision and mission?
● Vision: a society in which all people live long, healthy lives.
● Mission/Overarching Goals:
○ Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability,
injury, and premature death.
○ Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities and improve the health of all
groups.
○ Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
○ Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors
across all life changes.
3. What is health literacy?
● Health Literacy: being able to receive and comprehend basic health
concepts, such as nutrition and applying them to our own health decision.
, ● Health literacy develops through education on topics related to health
promotion and illness.
● Education Process of Health Literacy
○ Formal Education: purposely planned for implementation in a school setting.
○ Non-formal Education: organized teaching and learning events in
hospitals, clinics, and community centers.
○ Informal Education: variety of educational experiences that occur
through daily activities, like watching TV, reading newspapers and
magazines, browsing the internet or conversing with other people.
● Health Context: takes into account the influence of culture, social, and
individual factors with developing health literacy.
○ Cultural factors: ethnicity, religion, race
○ Social factors: setting that members receive support or lack of support
for health promoting behaviors
○ Individual factors: choices we make on willingness to acquire then
apply health knowledge.
● Health Literacy Actualization: being able to use acquired health knowledge and
skills.
4. Name and define the multidimensional aspects of health.
● 6 Dimensions of Health
○ Physical Health: efficient body functioning, maintaining immunity to
disease and meet energy requirements
○ Intellectual Health: use of intellectual abilities to learn and adapt to
environment
○ Emotional Health: ability to control emotions, express or suppress
emotions appropriately.
○ Social Health: interactions and relationships with other and sustaining
relationship with people.
○ Spiritual Health: cultural beliefs about the purpose of life, give purpose
to human existence.
○ Environmental Health: external factors that impact living and work
setting, like ethnicity, education, income, and occupation.
5. What are the 6 nutrient categories?
● Nutrition: how essential nutrients are processed and used by the body.
● Carbohydrates
● Proteins
● Lipids (fats)
● Vitamins
● Minerals
● water
, 6. What are essential nutrients and what are their functions?
● Essential Nutrients: essential because we can make some of it, but not
enough so we get the rest through food.
○ Carbohydrates: provide energy, help regulate body processes
■ Source: glucose
○ Proteins: provide energy, help regulate body processes, help aid
growth and repair of body tissue.
■ Source: amino acids
○ Lipids (fats): provide energy, help regulate body processes, help aid
growth and repair of body tissue
■ Source: linoleic acid, linolenic acid
○ Vitamins: provides energy, but as indirect role as catalyst for
body’s use of energy nutrients, help regulate body processes.
■ Source: Fat soluble vitamins (vitamin A, D, E, & K). Water
soluble vitamins (vitamin all Bs & C)
○ Minerals: provides energy, but as indirect role as catalyst for body’s
use of energy nutrients, help regulate body processes, help aid
growth and repair of body tissue
○ Water: help regulate body processes, help aid growth and repair of body
tissue.
● Non-essential nutrients: made natural in body but also be absorbed from certain
foods.
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7. Nurses promote and increase the level of health for individuals, families,
groups, and communities through the use of knowledge, different techniques
and through community support. How do they do this?
● Through health promotion.
● Health Promotion: what we do to increase the level of healthy individuals,
families, groups and communities.
● As nurses we do this through the use of:
○ Knowledge
○ Different techniques
○ Enlisting support of community.
8. What are primary, secondary, and tertiary disease prevention behaviors and
examples of each?
● Primary Prevention: initial treatment for prevention of a disease. Focus on
promotion.
○ Ex: immunization, low fat diet, high fiber (plant based) eating style.
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