health 236 module 6 – Flashcards
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An action taken by a person to maintain, attain, or regain good health and to prevent illness
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health behaviors
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health behaviors reflect a persons
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health bnelifs
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health beliefs can either me ___ or ___
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implicit, explicit
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types of health behaviors
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health enhancing, health impairing
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Have health benefits to the person practicing the behavior
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health enhancing health behavior
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Have harmful effects on the health of the person engaged in the behavior(s)
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health impairing health behaviors
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heatlh enhancing behaviors aka
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preventative behaviors, illness behaviors
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health impairing behaviors aka
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risk behaviors
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clearly developed or formulated health belif, full and clearly expressed or demonstrated
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explicit health belief
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implied or understood though not directly expressed health belief, contained in the nature of something though not readily apparent
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implicit health belifs
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health behavior that is implied, maybe not be aware of holding it
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implicit health belief
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many health behaviors are ___ and then occur for reasons other than health
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shaped
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why would a health behavior occur for reasons other than health
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culture, context
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__ and __ shape our attitudes
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cultural traditions, beliefs
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___ and __ shape our behaviors
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attitudes, contexts
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smoking rates of women in developed countries vs developing/under-developed
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22%, 9%
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prevention strategies to avoid disease
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primary
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prevention that involves early diagnosis and treatment of existing disease in order to avoid furtherr debilitative effects
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secondary
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example of primary prevention
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vaccinations
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example of secondary prevention
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screenings
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Fighting the disease and/or health condition when signs/symptoms present to minimize complications
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tertiary prevention
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examples of tertiary prevention
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medication therapy adherence, changing diet/exercise regimen
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avoidance of over-treatment
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quaternary
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Behaviors people engage in with the aim of relieving effects of illness.
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illness behaviors
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illness behaviors are closets to what type or prevention
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secondary
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illness behaviors strongly linked to socio-demographic factors such as
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gender, ethnicity, education, social class/income, family structre
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Any behavior that puts an individual at risk for negative consequences
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risk behaviors
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examples of risk behaviors
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Illicit drug use, non-adherence to prescribed medical regime, not using seatbelts
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good behaviors gone bad
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drug use, exercise, sexual activity
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health behaviors vary by
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race, ethnicity, and other socio-demographic factors
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inequities in health outcomes related to
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health behaviors
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who wrotes "racial disparities in awareness of the human papillomavirus"
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gelman
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the most commonsti yet the least recognized
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HPV
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HVP vaccination is associated with
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HPV awareness
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what was the result of HPV awarness study
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hispanic and black, younger 15-18 women overall were less likely to have heard of HPV compared to white women
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HPV awareness is low among
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minorities
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there is a postive association between HPV awareness and actions with regard to
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cervical cancer prevention
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what are you more likely to do if aware of HPV
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Pap screen, cervical cancer prevention protocol, receive HPV vaccine
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HPV awareness among parents of adolescent girls is associated iwth
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greater interest in having daughter vaccinated
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rates of vaccinations of daughters
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similar for white and hispanic, lower for black
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HPV vaccination rates lower in
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hispanics and blacks
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who wrote "the relationship among bodyd size, biological sex, ethnicity, and health lifestyles in adolescents"
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O'Haver
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american adolescents continue to have an increased risk for overweight and obsetty
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true
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what are overweight adolescents at risk for
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negative consequences in physical and emotional well-being (predisposition to- obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease), psychiattric illness
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of adolescents who perceived them selves as underweight or over weight, have increased likelihood of what
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depressive symptoms
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how an individual thinks affects behaviors and emotions
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cognitive behavioral theory
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overweight adolescents desire
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to weight less
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what percent of teens that were overweight thought they were the right size
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50
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what does the prevalence of teens that were overweight think they were the right size say
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reflection of increase in obesity in youth as a whole
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who were more likely to try to lose weight and want weight loss
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girls
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more likely to percieve themselves as weighing too much and less likely to percieve themselves as weighing too little
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girls
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race more likely to report that they were the right size when compared with peers
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caucasion
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race more likely to be less satisified with their sizes and more likely to say they didnt weigh enough
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not caucasion
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there were more overweight of what race
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not caucasion
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the domainat groups characteristics are
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desired
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teens that believed they could live a healthy lifestyle had more
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knowledge about nutritution and acitcity, make healthy lifestyle choices
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increased knowledge about activity =
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increased knowledge about nutrition, increased intention to make health choices, postive attitudes about living health lifestyle
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more likely to demostrate health lifestyle attitudes and be knowledgeable about activity and nutiriton
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girls
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more like to have accurate activity and nutrition knowledge
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caucasion
