DANCE 3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Health Promotion, Homicide, Preventive Healthcare
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Interpersonal: cultural, spiritual: not strictly religious; sense of connectedness to other living things/the planet, environmental, financial, occupational these dimensions are interrelated and may affect each other health is not the absence of disease. 1900s: people were dying mostly because of infectious diseases (disease that can spread from person to person) greater life expectancy because of public health and preventive medicine measures. Life expectancy has almost doubled since the early 1900"s, primarily due to advances in public health and preventive medicine. Today"s leading causes of death are primarily due to lifestyle choices, not infectious diseases. Quality of life: optimal health enhancing quality of life: adding years to your life and life to your years. Health promotion: the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants. The leading environmental and lifestyle contributing factor to death among americans is tobacco. The top health issue affecting college students" academic performance is stress.
