Key concepts to review:
1. What are health and wellness?
Health: the absence of disease or illness, merges and balances 6 physical and
psychological dimension of health, physical, intellectual, emotional, social, sp
...
Key concepts to review:
1. What are health and wellness?
Health: the absence of disease or illness, merges and balances 6 physical and
psychological dimension of health, physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual and
environmental.
● Wellness: lifestyle (pattern of behaviors) that enhances level of health.
● Pasteurization and sanitation have reduced risk of foodborne and environmental hazards.
● Rene Dubos (1968) Definition of Health
○ “Health is quality of life involving social, emotional, mental, spiritual, and biologic
fitness on the part of the individual, which results from adaptations to the
environment.”
● 6 Dimensions of Health
○ Physical Health: efficient body functioning, maintaining immunity to disease and
meet energy requirements
○ Intellectual Health: use of intellectual abilities to learn and adapt to environment
○ Emotional Health: ability to control emotions, express or suppress emotions
appropriately.
○ Social Health: interactions and relationships with other and sustaining relationship
with people.
○ Spiritual Health: cultural beliefs about the purpose of life, give purpose to human
existence.
○ Environmental Health: external factors that impact living and work setting, like
ethnicity, education, income, and occupation.
2. Healthy People 2020: What is its vision and mission?
● Vision: a society in which all people live long, healthy lives.
● Mission/Overarching Goals :
○ Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and
premature death.
○ Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities and improve the health of all groups.
○ Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
○ Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life
changes.
3. What is health literacy?
● Health Literacy: being able to receive and comprehend basic health concepts, such as
nutrition and applying them to our own health decision.
● Health literacy develops through education on topics related to health promotion and
illness.
● Education Process of Health Literacy
○ Formal Education: purposely planned for implementation in a school setting.
○ Non-formal Education: organized teaching and learning events in hospitals,
clinics, and community centers.
○ Informal Education: variety of educational experiences that occur through daily
activities, like watching TV, reading newspapers and magazines, browsing the
internet or conversing with other people.
● Health Context: takes into account the influence of culture, social, and individual factors
with developing health literacy.
○ Cultural factors:
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