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Dynamic state of health in which an individual progress toward a higher level of functioning, achieving an optimum balance between internal and external environments
Wellness
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Activities directed toward rehabilitation rather than diagnosis and treatment
Tertiary Prevention
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Level of preventive medicine that focuses on early diagnosis, use of referral services, and rapid initiation of treatment to stop the progress of disease processes
Secondary Prevention
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Any internal or external variable that makes a person or gourp more vulnerable to illness or an unhealthy event
Risk Factor
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First contact in a given episode of illness that leads to a decision regarding a course of action to prevent worsening of health problem
Primary prevention
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Activities that involve the patient as the recipient of actions by health care professionals
Passive Strategies of health Promotion
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Health Education programs or activities directed toward protection patients from threats or potential threats to health and minimizing
Illness Prevention
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Ways in which people monitor their bodies, define and interpret their symptoms, take remedial acitons, and use the health care system
Illness Behavior
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1 Abnormal process in which any aspect of a person's functioning is diminished or impared compared with his or her previous condition.
2 The personal, interpersonal, and cultural reaction to disease.
Illness
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Activities such as routine exercise and good nutrition that help patients maintain or enhance their presenct level of health and reduce their risk of developing certain diseases
Health Promotoion
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Conceptual framework that describes a person's health behavior as an expression of his or her health beliefs.
Health Belief Model
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Dynamic state in which individuals adapt to their interneal and external environments so their is a state of physical, emotional, interlectual, social, and spiritual well-being.
Health
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Illness that persists over a long time and affects physical, emotional, intelectual, social, and spiritual functioning.
Chronic Illness
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Illness characterized by symptoms that are of relativly short duration, are usually severe, and affect the functioning of the patient in all dementions
Acute Illness
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Activities that depend on the patient's motivation to adopt a specific health program
Active Strategies of Health Promotion
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