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Chapter 1 Terms
Intro to Health Care Delivery
Term | Definition |
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aboriginal people | broadly, individuals indigenous to a country or region |
cardiovascular disease | disease that affects the heart and vascular system |
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) | persistent lung disease that interferes with normal breathing, including both chronic bronchitis |
compensation | that part of the health-illness continuum in which a person is neither in good nor poor health, is able to accommodate a malady, and is continuing on with daily life |
culture | common elements of a social group, including its beliefs, practices, behaviours, values, and attitudes |
disability | a physical or mental incapacity that differs from what is perceived as normal function |
disease | a disorder affecting a system or organ, which can be mental, physical, or genetic in origin |
emotional wellness | people's ability to understand themselves, to recognize their strengths and limitations and to accept who they are |
environmental wellness | engages in a lifestyle that is friendly to the environment both internal and external |
etiology | the study of causes |
exacerbation | a period of time when a disease (usually chronic) is active and the person has symptoms...may also refer to an increase in the severity of the disease |
health behaviour | the activities and actions a person engages in to acquire and maintain good physical and psychological health |
health beliefs | what a person believes to be true about his or her health and susceptibility to illness, and about illness, prevention, and treatment in general |
health-illness continuum | a method of measuring one's state of health at any given point in time |
holistic | whole...in health care, treating the whole person, not just an individual part of the person |
illness | how a person feels about his or her health, whether or not a disease is present |
infant mortality | the death of an infant |
intellectual wellness | a person's ability to make informed decisions that are appropriate and beneficial |
life expectancy | the number of years a population or parts of a population is expected to live as determined by statistics |
morbidity | disease, the occurrence of disease, or impairment resulting from accidents or environmental causes that adversely affects health |
mortality | death or the occurrence of deaths, resulting from disease, accidents, or environmental causes |
obesity | excessive accumulation of body fat to the point that an individual's health is at risk |
physical wellness | maintaining a healthy body by eating a nutritious, balance diet, exercising regularly, making intelligent, informed decisions about ones health, and seeking medical assistance when necessary |
remission | a period of time during which a chronic disease is neither active nor acute and the person has no obvious symptoms |
self-imposed risk behaviours | actions (such as smoking tobacco) that a person willfully engages in despite knowing they pose a danger to his or her health |
sick role behaviour | a person's response to disease or illness |
signs | those things related to an illness that a person or examiner can see |
social wellness | relating effectively to others,, including being able to form close, loving relationships, to laugh, to communicate effectively and empathically, to be a good listener, and to respond appropriately |
spiritual wellness | may include a commitment to a religion or some higher power that evokes a sense of belonging to something greater than "self" |
symptoms | those things that a person feels that may relate to an illness |
wellness | the way a person feels about his or her health and quality of life |