2. How do the Dimensions of Health Effect you?

2.1 Healthy Lifestyles

How many health problems are lifestyle related? See www.learnwell.org/topwell.htm

How does a healthy lifestyle differ from an unhealthy one? Take the Florida Hospital Celebration Health Quiz

2.2 Social Health

What is the extend and quality of your relationships?

2.3 Personal Health Risks

How can you lower your risks from infection and lifestyle diseases?

2.4 Harmful Habits

What are the harmful habits that impede your health and what are you doing about them?

2.5 Health Care

Who and how are various people involved in your health care?

2.6 Keep up your Health Records that include: Next of Kin, Resting Pulse, Blood-pressure, Allergies, Eye-glasses prescriptions, Fractures, Permanent Disabilities, Present Chronic Diseases, Medication Record, Tests Performed, Reproductive System, Common Childhood Diseases, Quick Reference of Doctors, Maternity Care, Surgeries, Hospitalizations, Dental Care, Therapeutic Services, Immunizations.

ERIC_NO: ED248212, TITLE: Wellness Assessment: A Rationale, A Measure, and Physical/Psychological Components, AUTHOR: Shuffield, Gilda; Dana, Richard H., PUBLICATION_DATE: 1984
ABSTRACT: Wellness, or holistic health, represents a positive attitude toward the integration of physical and psychological aspects of lifestyle. There have been few attempts to assess wellness that contain more than questionnaire items across several component areas. This paper describes a test battery that includes physical (nutrition, cardiorespiratory endurance, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility) and psychological components (health locus of control, self-esteem, and stress and coping skills) and that can be administered in 90 minutes. In addition, an attempt is made to devise a brief global projective measure of inner balance, or coherence congruence, that can substitute for the test battery and be useful for monitoring wellness in specific populations. www.askeric.org

Make better choices for yourself and your family when choosing doctors, health insurance, online health information, and a healthy lifestyle. Follow the links below to reliable health information from www.healthfinder.gov :

• basic library of health information

• online health checkups

• health care decisions

• health information by age, gender,  race or ethnic origin, and caregiver and family roles

• health-related organizations       

• Source: www.healthypeople.gov

  

  How can you care for your physiological systems?

  Survey the following six body systems and suggest ways to keep them healthy.

  3.1 Skeleton and Muscles

  3.2 Brain and Nerves

  3.3 Heart, Lungs and Blood Vessels

             How does the blood circulate in the heart?

  3.4 Digestive Organs

  3.5 Reproductive Organs

  3.6 Sense Organs

  The digestive system    is a series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth to the anus. Inside this tube is a lining called the mucosa. In the mouth, stomach, and small intestine, the mucosa contains tiny glands that produce juices to help digest food. There are also two solid digestive organs, the liver and the pancreas, which produce juices that reach the intestine through small tubes. In addition, parts of other organ systems (for instance, nerves and blood) play a major role in the digestive system.

  Digestion involves the mixing of food, its movement through the digestive tract, and chemical breakdown of the large molecules of food into smaller molecules. Digestion begins in the mouth, when we chew and swallow, and is completed in the small intestine. The chemical process varies somewhat for different kinds of food.

  The large, hollow organs of the digestive system contain muscle that enables their walls to move. The movement of organ walls can propel food and liquid and also can mix the contents within each organ. Typical movement of the esophagus, stomach, and intestine is called peristalsis. The action of peristalsis looks like an ocean wave moving through the muscle. The muscle of the organ produces a narrowing and then propels the narrowed portion slowly down the length of the organ. These waves of narrowing push the food and fluid in front of them through each hollow organ.

  The first major muscle movement occurs when food or liquid is swallowed. Although we are able to start swallowing by choice, once the swallow begins, it becomes involuntary and proceeds under the control of the nerves.

  The esophagus is the organ into which the swallowed food is pushed. It connects the throat above with the stomach below. At the junction of the esophagus and stomach, there is a ring-like valve closing the passage between the two organs. However, as the food approaches the closed ring, the surrounding muscles relax and allow the food to pass.

  The food then enters the stomach, which has three mechanical tasks to do. First, the stomach must store the swallowed food and liquid. This requires the muscle of the upper part of the stomach to relax and accept large volumes of swallowed material. The second job is to mix up the food, liquid, and digestive juice produced by the stomach. The lower part of the stomach mixes these materials by its muscle action. The third task of the stomach is to empty its contents slowly into the small intestine.

  Several factors affect emptying of the stomach, including the nature of the food (mainly its fat and protein content) and the degree of muscle action of the emptying stomach and the next organ to receive the stomach contents (the small intestine). As the food is digested in the small intestine and dissolved into the juices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine, the contents of the intestine are mixed and pushed forward to allow further digestion.

  Finally, all of the digested nutrients are absorbed through the intestinal walls. The waste products of this process include undigested parts of the food, known as fiber, and older cells that have been shed from the mucosa. These materials are propelled into the colon, where they remain, usually for a day or two, until the feces are expelled by a bowel movement. www.nih.gov  

  Did you know that Life expectancy for women in the United States is 82? One in seven women will experience major depression in her lifetime. The most common chronic condition affecting women is chronic sinusitis. More than 40 million surgical procedures are performed on women yearly. If cervical cancer is caught early, women have about a 90 percent survival rate. Women account for 65 percent of the medical expenditures each year. Women make three-fourths of the health care decisions in American households and spend nearly two out of three U.S. healthcare dollars, approximately $500 billion each year. Eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia, occur in 10 times as many women as men. Heart disease in women often goes undetected and untreated until the disease has become severe. Therefore, 39 percent of women who have heart attacks die within one year, compared with 31 percent of men. Migraines are 2 to 3 times more common in women than in men.

  Tests and screenings recommended for women in the 50s age group include:• Monthly breast self exam • Monthly skin self exam • Yearly clinical breast exam • Yearly mammogram • Yearly pelvic exam • Yearly fecal occult blood test • Pap smear every 1 to 3 years • Blood pressure every 2 years
  • Fasting plasma glucose every 3 years • Cholesterol every 5 years • Colonoscopy ever 5 years • Bone mineral density test once   for screening purposes.

  

   4. How can you develop good psychological health?

  Give yourself...
  *acceptance (It's OK to be limited)
  *respect (It's OK to shine)
  *love (It's OK to be happy alone)
  *changes (It's OK to grow)
  *aims (It's OK to move ahead).

  Review the six topics below and suggest ways that they can improve your health. Remember that disrespect and lack of love are among the most destructive human values. 

  4.1 Know Yourself. (Know your values. Your values are like the mission    statement of your life)

  4.2 Pursue Life and Happiness

  4.3 Find meaning for life through love, caring for your soul, and helping others.

  4.4 Feel in Control

  4.5 Boost your Energy

  4.6 Connect with Others

  ERIC_NO: ED286019, Wellness in Small Businesses. By Behrens, Ruth A., 1985
  ABSTRACT: Increasing numbers of small businesses are providing wellness activities for their employees. By instituting wellness programs, small businesses can improve employee morale, engender a commitment from employees, enhance the feeling of "family" among employees, improve worker productivity, and contain health care costs. Wellness programs are especially important for small businesses since small businesses often operate with very small staffs and because health insurance for small businesses is often costly or difficult to obtain. Small businesses can encourage wellness among their employees in the following ways: formulation of policies and implementation of practices aimed at supporting wellness, provision of a supportive physical environment, development of programs to educate employees and their families about the benefits of wellness, provision of small classes, development of incentives (monetary or tangible) for staying healthy, and provision of screening examinations and counseling services. The most successful small business-sponsored wellness programs are generally small, simple, inexpensive, family-oriented, and cognizant of the fact that keeping employees healthy requires providing them with a safe and healthy workplace.  www.askeric.org

  

  5. How can you relate to the major mental health disorders?

  Describe the kinds, symptoms and strategies for change and prevention of each of the following disorders.

  5.1 Anxiety Disorders

  5.2 Depressive Disorders

  5.3 Attention disorders, including Schizophrenia

  5.4 What are some recent developments in wellness and mental health?

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