Intro to Health Care Delivery
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| aboriginal people | broadly, individuals indigenous to a country or region
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| cardiovascular disease | disease that affects the heart and vascular system
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| chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) | persistent lung disease that interferes with normal breathing, including both chronic bronchitis
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| 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
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| culture | common elements of a social group, including its beliefs, practices, behaviours, values, and attitudes
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| disability | a physical or mental incapacity that differs from what is perceived as normal function
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| disease | a disorder affecting a system or organ, which can be mental, physical, or genetic in origin
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| emotional wellness | people's ability to understand themselves, to recognize their strengths and limitations and to accept who they are
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| environmental wellness | engages in a lifestyle that is friendly to the environment both internal and external
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| etiology | the study of causes
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| 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
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| health behaviour | the activities and actions a person engages in to acquire and maintain good physical and psychological health
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| 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
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| health-illness continuum | a method of measuring one's state of health at any given point in time
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| holistic | whole...in health care, treating the whole person, not just an individual part of the person
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| illness | how a person feels about his or her health, whether or not a disease is present
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| infant mortality | the death of an infant
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| intellectual wellness | a person's ability to make informed decisions that are appropriate and beneficial
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| life expectancy | the number of years a population or parts of a population is expected to live as determined by statistics
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| morbidity | disease, the occurrence of disease, or impairment resulting from accidents or environmental causes that adversely affects health
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| mortality | death or the occurrence of deaths, resulting from disease, accidents, or environmental causes
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| obesity | excessive accumulation of body fat to the point that an individual's health is at risk
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| 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
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| remission | a period of time during which a chronic disease is neither active nor acute and the person has no obvious symptoms
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| 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
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| sick role behaviour | a person's response to disease or illness
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| signs | those things related to an illness that a person or examiner can see
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| 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
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| spiritual wellness | may include a commitment to a religion or some higher power that evokes a sense of belonging to something greater than "self"
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| symptoms | those things that a person feels that may relate to an illness
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| wellness | the way a person feels about his or her health and quality of life
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