KIN 170 Lecture 1 PDF: Taking Charge of Your Health

KIN 170 Lecture 1 Taking Charge of Your Health  What is Health? The overall condition of the body or mind and the presence of absence of illness or injury.  Wellness: The New Health Goal! Wellness – Optimal health and vitality, encompassing all dimensions of well-be...

KIN 170 Lecture 1 Taking Charge of Your Health  What is Health? The overall condition of the body or mind and the presence of absence of illness or injury.  Wellness: The New Health Goal! Wellness – Optimal health and vitality, encompassing all dimensions of well-being. Living live to the fullest. Largely determined by the decisions you make about how you live. Enhanced wellness involves making conscious decisions to control risk factors that contribute to disease or injury What is the Difference Between Health and Wellness?  Health Promotion An educational and informational process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health Addresses health issues in context recognizing that many individual, social, environmental factors interact to influence health What is Population Health A way of thinking about the social and economic forces that shape the health of Canadians. Examples that are specifically Canadian? Social Determinants of Health Textbook 1. Income and income distribution Table 1.1 2. Education 3. Unemployment and job security 4. Employment and working conditions 5. Early childhood development 6. Food insecurity 7. Housing Social Determinants of Health Ctd. 8. Social exclusion 9. Social safety net and network 10. Health services 11. Indigenous status 12. Gender 13. Race 14. Disability Some of these are also covered in the Dimensions of Diversity boxes in Chapter 1 Dimensions of Wellness 1. Physical 2. Emotional Not just your body’s overall condition and the Is dynamic – involves the ups and downs of living absence of disease but also your fitness level and Requires exploring thoughts and feelings your ability to care for yourself Achieving emotional wellness includes finding Make choices that will help you avoid illness and solutions to emotional problems, with injury professional help if necessary Ex. Eating well, exercising Ex. Optimism, Self-esteem, Self-acceptance Dimensions of Wellness Ctd. 3. Intellectual 4. Interpersonal Constantly challenging your mind Ability to develop and maintain satisfying and Able to detect problems, find solutions and supportive relationships direct behaviours Participating in and contributing to your Never stop learning community and society Ex. Open to new ideas, able to think critically, Ex. Communication skills, capacity for intimacy creative Dimensions of Wellness Ctd. 5. Cultural The way you interact with others who are different from you in terms of ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age and customs. Suspending judgment of others Accepting and valuing the different cultural ways that people act in the world Ex. Avoiding stereotypes 6. Spiritual To possess a set of guiding beliefs, principles or values that give meaning and purpose to your life, especially in difficult times Some through religion, others through nature, art, meditation, etc. Ex. Capacity for love, compassion Dimensions of Wellness Ctd. 7. Environmental 8. Financial The livability of your surroundings – including Your ability to live within your means and your workspace manage your money in a way that gives you Safety of food, the degree of violence in society peace of mind. Ex. Recycling Ex. Saving for the future and emergencies. Dimensions of Wellness Ctd. 9. Occupational The level of happiness and fulfillment you gain through your work and employment An occupationally well person enjoys their work, feels a connection with others in the workplace, and takes advantage of the opportunities to learn and be challenged. Ex. Feeling valued by your manager