Health ScienceStudy GuideFall 2013
Chapter 1-Taking Charge of your health
- What is wellness and what are the dimensions of wellness? What are the characteristics of each dimension of wellness?
- What factors influence wellness and how?
- What is a target behavior?
- What are definitions and examples of chronic and infectious disease?
- How has wellness changed over time? What did people suffer and die from before and after the 1900’s and why?
- How has life expectancy changed over time.
- What is the top preventable leading cause of death in the U.S.
- What are the goals of the healthy people initiative?
Chapter 2-Stress: The Constant Challenge
- What is stress? What is a stressor? Eustress vs. Distress.
- What systems are responsible for controlling the stress response? Do they work at the same rate, in the same way, together?
- What are the components of the nervous system?
- What are the components of the endocrine system?
- What is the organization of the nervous system and what types of activities does each branch control?
- What are the characteristics of the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems? How are they similar or different?
- What is homeostasis? Why is it important to return to homeostasis after a physical stress response?
- What gland releases cortisol, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and adrenaline? What role does each hormone play in the stress response?
- What determines how we emotionally respond to stress?
- How would you expect a person with type A,B or C/resilient personality to respond to stress?
- What are some differences between how men and women respond to stress and why?
- What are the three stages of the general adaptation syndrome and what are they characterized by?
- What is the allostatic load?
- What are some specific examples of how stress can cause physical disease? (Ex. Development of atherosclerosis and/or cancer/infection due to high stress levels)
- What are some cognitive techniques for dealing with stress? What types of relaxation techniques can be used to cope with stress?
- What does each relaxation technique involve?
Chapter Three-Psychological Health
- What is psychological health? How is it related to wellness?
- What is self-actualization and what are the characteristics of a self-actualized person?
- What are the eight stages of personality development according to Erikson? At what stage in life does each one occur and what are the characteristics of each stage?
- When does one start developing a healthy self-esteem and what does the development of a healthy self-esteem involve?
- What are the characteristics of the psychological and mood disorders discussed in class?
- What is anxiety?
- What are the warning signs of suicide?
- Know the facts about suicide given in lecture.
- What is the physiological basis of mood disorders?
- What are the characteristics of the models of human nature and therapeutic change? (only consider the biological, behavioral and cognitive)
Conventional and Complementary Medicine (Ch. 20)
- Self-Care
- Knowing how to assess your symptoms
- Knowing when to see a physician
- Self treatment (what does it involve?)
- What are the beliefs/concepts of health in conventional medicine? Eastern medicine?
- Who are the providers of conventional medicine and what is their educational background?
- How do you get the most out of your medical care?
- Complementary and alternative medicine
- What are the five domains?
- What are general characteristics of each domain?
- What are specific examples of each domain (discussed in class only)