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How can health be defined?
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The dynamic, everchanging process of trying to achieve individual potential in each of the interrelated dimensions.
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What are the 7 dimensions of health?
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POSSEEM
-Physical Health -Occupational Health -Spiritual Health -Social Health -Emotional Health -Enivironmental Health -Mental Health |
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What is Physical health?
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-Body Shape and Size
-Sensory acuity -Susceptibility to disease and disorders -Body functioning -ability to recuperate -ability to perform ADL's (Activities of Daily Living) |
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What is Occupational Health?
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-Personal satisfaction from careers or stages of career development
-Balance between work/school and personal life |
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What is Spiritual Health?
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-Can involve a belief in a supreme being
-The deepest and most innermost part of someone -Helps you unterstand the world and your role in it -A belief that someone uses to draw hope and strength from -beliefs, ethics, and morality -**Can also relate to social and environmental health |
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What is Social Health?
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-The ability to have satisfying interpersonal relationships
-Interacting with others -adapting to various social situations -communication skills (especially with new people) |
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What is Envitonmental Health?
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-Appreciation of the external environments and the role we play in protecting, preserving, and improving it.
-How happy you are with where you live -Being aware of things happening in the world around you -** Can also crossover with mental and spiritual health |
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What is Emotional Health?
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- The "feeling" componenet
- The ability to express emotions and reacting appropriately -Includes feelings of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-efficacy, trust, love, etc |
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What is Mental Health?
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-Ability to think clearly, reason objectively, analyze citically
-using the brain effectively to meet life's challenges -learning from success and failures -making responsible decisions -manage stress productively -can cross over with spiritual health (beliefs, morality) |
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Are the seven dimensions seperate or integrated?
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-There is no clear line between the 7 dimensions
-All of the dimensions are all interrelated |
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What is sleep?
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-a period of reduced activity
-results in decreased responsiveness to extermal stimuli -a state that is relatively easy to reverse |
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What are the reasons for sleep?
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-to rest, rejuvinate, and repair the body
--many functions of sleep, no primary function |
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What is the sleep INACTIVITY THEORY?
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-Humans remain inactive and quiet in their most vulnerable time (night b/c human have impaired night vision)
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What is the sleep ENERGY CONSERVATION theory?
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-Saving energy for the daytime for hunting/surviving
-Less energy is expended during sleep |
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What is the sleep RESTORATIVE theory?
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-During sleep, the body repairs and recovers tissues and body functions
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