Well-being is associated with:
1) Self-perceived health
2) Longevity
3) Healthy behaviors
4) Mental & physical illness
5) Social connectedness
6)
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7) Factors in physical & social environment
Well-being survey: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) --> questions/questionnaires
General Well-Being Schedule (1971-1975).
Well-being survey: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) --> questions/questionnaires
1) Quality of Well-being Scale.
2) Global life satisfaction.
3) Satisfaction with emotional and social support.
4) Feeling happy in the past 30 days.
Well-being survey: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) --> questions/questionnaires
1) Global life satisfaction.
2) Satisfaction with emotional and social support.
Well-being survey: Porter Novelli Healthstyles Survey --> questions/questionnaires
1) Satisfaction with Life Scale.
2) Meaning in life.
3) Autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
4) Overall and domain specific life satisfaction.
5) Overall happiness.
6) Positive and Negative Affect Scale.
Dr. John Travis' New Vision
Dr. Travis decided that rather than treating sick people, he would dedicate his life to inspiring people to be well.
Dr. Travis Key Concept #1
Illness-Wellness Continuum: Wellness is a process, never a static state.
Dr. Travis Key Concept #2
Iceberg Model
Iceberg Model
Illness and Health are only the tip of the iceberg. To understand their causes, you must look below the surface.
Dr. Travis Key Concept #3
Wellness Energy System: We are all energy transformers, connected with the whole universe. All our life processes, including illness, depends on how we manage energy. The efficient flow of energy is essential to wellness.
Wellness Energy System
How you manage your energy has an impact on how you manage your health
Energy Inputs
Three major sources for energy input around are around us all the time. These are..
1) Oxygen (breathing)
2) Food (eating)
3) Sensory Stimulation (sensing) such as physical touch, heat, light, sound, and other forms of electromagnetic radiation.
Energy Outputs
You are the channel or the transformer of energy sources.
Internal Output
We use part of the energy we take in to maintain the channel, to build and repair the body itself and much of it occurs during our all-important sleep periods.
External Output
The outside world will also be affected by the ways you transform energy.
You radiate heat and eliminate waste products in the form of urine, perspiration, carbon dioxide, and the shedding of dead skin.
The rest of us will be affected by your touching, your physical work, and play, your laughter, and sadness.
We will learn about you, and ourselves, through communication, the sharing of intellectual pursuits, and the expression of creativity.
Life Processes of Energy Output
1) Self-Responsibility and Love
2) Moving
3) Feeling
4) Thinking
5) Playing and Working
6) Communicating
7) Intimacy
8) Finding Meaning
9) Transcending
Blood Pressure
Blood pressure is the pressure of blood pushing against the walls of your arteries. Arteries carry blood from your heart to other parts of your body.
Your blood pressure normally rises and falls throughout the day.
Systolic Blood Pressure (top #)
Measures the pressure in your arteries when your heart beats.
Diastolic Blood Pressure (bottom #)
Measures the pressure in your arteries when your heart rests between beats.
Normal Blood Pressure
Less than 120/80 mmHg
Hypertension
High blood pressure. 140+/90+ mm Hg or higher. You treat a greater risk of having heart attack, heart disease, or stroke. OR 130+/80+ mm Hg.
At Risk - Prehypertension
120-139/80-89 mm HG
Elevated BP range
120-129/less than 80 mm HG
Causes of High BP
- Unhealthy lifestyle choices
- Not exercising regular
- Diabetes
- Obesity
- Can happen during pregnancy
What does high bp do?
Can damage your organs like your heart, brain, kidneys, and eyes. It can cause a stroke.
Heart Attack
Happens with eh blood supply to your heart is blocked and heart muscle begins to die witht enough oxygen.
Heart Failure
Your heart can't ump enough blood and oxygen to your other organs.
Manage/Prevent High BP
- Get @ least 150 min/ physical activity each week
- Don't smoke
- Eat a healthy diet, limiting salt and alcohol
- Keep a healthy weight
- Manage stress
6/10 people with diabetes have...
High blood pressure
Cause of High BP
- Genetics
- Bad lifestyle behaviors (unhealthy eating habits - too much sodium, and not enough potassium, inactivity, obesity, smoking, alcohol - women = no more than one drink/day, men = no more than two drinks/day...)
- Age (likelihood increases with age).
- Sex (equal likelihood)
- Race/Ethnicity (black people develop it more often than other races)
Diabetes
A chronic condition that affects how your body turns food into energy. Most of the food you eat is broken down into sugar (also called glucose) and released into your bloodstream. When your blood sugar goes up, it signals your pancreas to release insulin. Insulin acts like a key to let the blood sugar into your body's cells for use as energy.
If you have diabetes, your body either doesn't make enough insulin or can't use the insulin it makes as well as it should. [Show Less]