Assessing Your Health
Across
- 2. An assessment of the positive aspects of a person's life, such as positive emotions and life satisfaction.
- 4. Appraisal of the relationship between some object, action, or idea and som attribute of that object, action, or idea.
- 6. prevention actions or behaviors designed to keep people from getting sick.
- 8. Learning specific behaviors by watching others perform them.
- 11. of control The location, external (outside oneself) or internal (within oneself), that an individual perceives as a source and underlying cause of events in his or her life.
- 13. Model (TTM) also called stages of change model, model of behavior change that identifies six distinct stages people go through in altering behavior patterns.
- 15. Using a series of small steps to gradually achieve a particular goal.
- 16. The dynamic, ever-changing process of trying to achieve one's potential in each of six interrelated dimensions based on one's own unique limitations and strengths.
- 17. Substituting a desired behavior for an undesirable one.
- 18. of Health The array of critical influences that determine the health of individuals and communities.
- 21. the customary manner of thinking and talking to yourself, which can affect your self-image.
- 22. Behaviors Actions that increase susceptibility to negative health outcomes.
- 23. Disease A disease that typically begins slowly, progresses, and persists, with a variety of signs and symptoms that can be treated but not cured by medications.
- 25. expectancy Expected number of years of life remaining at a given age, such as birth.
- 26. Promotion The combined educational, organizational, procedural, environmental, social, and financial supports that help individuals and groups reduce negative health behaviors and promote positive change.
Down
- 1. Belief in one's ability to peform a task successfully.
- 3. Model A view of health in which health status focuses primarily on the individual and a biological or diseased organ perspective.
- 5. Also called public health model, a view o health in which diseases and other negative health events are seen as a result of an indvidual's interaction wih his or her social and physical environment.
- 7. quality of life (HRQoL) A multidimensional concept that focuses on the impact of physical, mental, emotional, and social health status on quality of life overall.
- 9. Cognitive Model (SCM) Model of behavior change emphasizing the role of social factors and thought processes (cognition) in behavior change.
- 10. A social, cognitive, and emotional force that directs human behavior.
- 12. life expectancy expected number of years of full health remaining at a given age, such as birth.
- 14. Reinforcement Presenting something positive following a behavior that is being reinforced.
- 15. inducement attempt to influence a behavior through situations and occasions that are structured to exert control over that behavior.
- 19. The proportion of deaths to population.
- 20. rehearsal Practicing, through mental imagery, to become better able to perform an event in actuality.
- 24. The ever-changing process of achieving individual potential in the physical, social, emotional, mental, spiritual, and environmental dimensions.