...Health and Wellness in Native North America It is true that many of the old ways have been lost. But just as the rains restore the earth after a drought, so the power of the Great Mystery will restore the way and give it new life. We ask that this happen not just for the Red People, but for all people, that they all might live. Black Elk, Oglala, Sioux Contemporary health status of American Indians can be best viewed through the lens of various federal policies enacted over the past 500 years. These policies were developed largely in response to dramatic population losses among the indigenous peoples of America, resulting from genocidal actions of military campaigns, the lack of immunity to the diseases that accompanied European colonizers, and the assimilation efforts that destroyed tribal structures and wellness practices. Medical services were first coordinated through army physicians in the Department of War in an effort to control the spread of diseases from early reservation sites placed on or near military forts. By the twentieth century, the rapid decline of the Indigenous population, documented by the “Meriam Report” of 19281 prompted new assimilation efforts to save the first Americans. Healthcare services were re-coordinated within the Bureau of Indian Affairs and then into the Public Health Service, finally resting within the Federal Indian Health Service (IHS). Assimilation policies, however, proved to be highly destructive resulting in the...
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...Campaign Blog 2 "The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake (Michelle Obama February 2010)." The Lets Move campaign is an initiative orchestrated by First Lady Michelle Obama. The First Lady began the initiative in 2010 in an effort to combat childhood obesity and poor health. The article shares statistics of over 40% of American Children are obese and are experiencing the onset of chronic disease that is years beyond their ages (letsmove.gov/learn-facts/epidemic-childhood-obesity). The culprit is a change in American culture and lifestyle; Americans live a sedentary lifestyle (letsmove.gov/learn-facts/epidemic-childhood-obesity). In addition healthy eating habits have been replaced by fast and processed food diets. Children no longer walk to school nor play outside but instead ride cars and buses and result to sitting and playing internet games (letsmove.gov/learn-facts/epidemic-childhood-obesity). The Let’s Move article states: “Everyone has a role to play in reducing childhood obesity, including parents, elected officials from all levels of government, schools, health care professionals, faith-based and community-based organizations, and private sector companies. Your involvement is key to ensuring a healthy future for our children.” This article relates to “wellness coaching” because all humans could benefit from being healthier and “moving”. Many wellness client will probably be parents and making...
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...[pic] BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION WITH HONOURS 7 / 2016 MPU2313 HEALTH AND WELLNESS MATRICULATION NO : 870331145060001 IDENTITY CARD NO. : 870331145060 TELEPHONE NO. : 019-346 8814 E-MAIL : siti_nor_hidaiyah@yahoo.com LEARNING CENTRE : SHAH ALAM LEARNING CENTRE Question 1 A healthy lifestyle is a way of life that can reduce the risk of various diseases in the future. Lack of exercises and eating fast foods will lead to unhealthy lifestyle. To improve the state of wellness, people can choose to have active lifestyle and healthy diet so it will help in reducing the risk of diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes. A healthy lifestyle is defined as a condition of physical, mental and social wellbeing, active, intelligent and free from any disease (WHO, 1948). This definition stressed that the status of healthy lifestyle is not threatened by any disease that could harm human. The main importance of a healthy lifestyle is to keep the health in good condition. This lifestyle is always beneficial to physical fitness. For example, by doing regular exercising and consume foods with the right nutrients, we can avoid dangerous diseases and ensuring a person’s life be more healthy and active. Exercise such as sports, jogging will ensure our body becomes fitter and circulatory system become more orderly. The human immune...
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...Raquel White Ms. DeCandia Red 090.002 January 31, 2011 Health and Wellness Health is the absence of illness, injury or disease. Wellness is the pursuit of your best possible health and well-being. Wellness means the ability to do the things you want to do. That well-being is not just physical health. Wellness is an overall balance of your physical, social, spiritual, emotional, intellectual, environmental, and occupational well-being. Health refers simply to a physical body being free from diseases. Health is a goal one can achieve while wellness is a dynamic concept that continues for a lifetime. Wellness means that one strives for balance throughout his whole life. On the other hand, health would be that a person wants to lose weight and lower blood pressure. Once he does this, he is considered healthy. Wellness is a way to complete the person, a person with ability to live and take action. Health might be an absence of symptoms but with wellness, you have energy, your body is functioning at an optimal level. You can condition yourself to allow higher levels of health. Health is a progression of conditioning your body. As you achieve these higher levels you are working into a state of wellness. In my case, I feel that I practice wellness. In the past four years I have managed to lose 150 pounds, lower my blood pressure, and overall feel better about myself. In my opinion if you practice wellness, taking care of yourself, you are most likely to be absent from symptoms...
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...Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Includes characteristics such as body size and shape, sensory acuity and responsiveness, susceptibility to disease and disorders, body functioning, physical fitness and recuperative abilities. The ability to perform normal daily living activities. Physical health is more about the condition of your body. Is your body physical fit or not. Social health: Refers to the ability to have a satisfying interpersonal relationship, including interactions with others, adaption to social situations and appropriate daily behaviors in society. Social health is being able to get along with other people outside of your self. How well do you socialize with others. Intellectual health: Refers to the ability to think clearly, reason objectively, analyze critically, and use brain power effectively to meet life’s challenges. It means learning from success and mistakes and making responsible decisions that take into consideration all aspects of a situation. Intellectual health means your ability to learn from the past and apply it to future decisions. How well do you use your brain in difficult circumstances? Environmental health: Refers to an appreciation...
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...The keywords typed in was Health and Wellness The degree program is designed to provide students with the knowledge required to help individuals pursue increased health through diet and exercise. I learned that there are 70 different careers within the field. My focus would be fitness specialist, fitness manager, personal trainer, or exercise specialist. With this degree plan I could easily get pursue fitness careers. I could also pursue a career as health and wellness director, as that could be within government sector. I am most excited to learn about nutrition, community welfare and health, and disease prevention and control. I’m excited because I really like how the body works and how it rebuilds and overcomes physically and mentally. The courses within this field, will prepare me to understand these areas more. I will also prepare myself by striving harder in the gym so that I can better with my fitness. Once I have more knowledge, I can start to promote health and fitness to small groups such as family and peers as well as my community. I could tell them about the prevention and control of diseases, and how it is important to body’s health. When speaking or training hands on I think that I would need to use the correct health terms to use at all times. That would come with professionalism training I think. I know that I will enjoy this program very much. Health is important to me, and having great knowledge on it will help others out as well as myself. This field is a...
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...Level Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Physical health is to be able to perform normal activities of everyday living. An example of my physical health is that I am able to walk 4 miles everyday to try and keep physical fitness. Social health: Social health is being able to have healthy and interpersonal relationships in everyday society. An example of social health in my life is having a best friend that I am able to talk with and participate in activities with. Intellectual health: Intellectual health is being able to cope with life’s ups and downs and to make soild and sound decisions whether the situation is good or bad. An example of intellectual health with me is coping with my job decisions. Whether someone makes me mad or not I have to be able to make solid and mature decisions. Environmental health: Enviromental health is the appreciation of anything or anyone who protects, preserves or improves the condition of the environment. An example of environmental health is practicing recycling. We save plastic container and cans to help with the cleanup process of the environment. Emotional health: Emotional health is being able to express your emotions...
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...Optimal Health and Wellness Aaron-John P McDonald COM/172 February 21, 2014 Robert Eakins Optimal Health and Wellness . A better understanding about how our bodies and minds function has been better observed by scientists and brought to the attention of the general public. Research has introduced three elements of health and wellness and how nutrition and fitness as active parts of our lives. Research has also discovered ways for preventing major diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Preventing awful effects in our environment and protecting the immune system is part of action plans researchers have discovered to play an important role in improved physical health and wellness. Physical Health It is important to get enough rest and sleep our body needs to rest to be able to function properly. Exercise is essential because it gives us strength, endurance, and a healthy body. That is why we should maintain a healthy weight so our body can fight other risk factors. Physical Health helps control weight and reduces the risk of Cardio-Vascular Disease (CVD) CVD disease (Donatelle, 2011). With exercise we can also reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and some cancers. But most of all it increase our chances of living longer and having better emotional health. Emotional Health People who are emotionally healthy are able to handle life's challenges, build strong relationships, and recover from setbacks from life. It requires effort stability to build and maintain emotional health...
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...Optimal Health and Wellness Action Plan Over the last few weeks our team has come up with ideas that would help improve overall health. We have looked into the areas of health and wellness, nutrition and fitness, prevention of the most prevalent chronic diseases, how the environment affects our health, and protecting and enhancing our immune systems. These simple steps can lead to optimal health and wellness. We as a team recognize the six dimensions of health in our lives, and feel society is stronger in some areas than others. Areas we would like to see improvements in our social, physical, and environmental health. We can see that it is hard for people to interact with one another in many ways. People do not seem to be able to communicate face to face or feel comfortable with anyone that is not just like themselves. We would like to see people from across the cultures and races learn how to connect in the real world, and see that when we make things better for one, we are really making it better for all. We can do our part by reaching out to others and setting an example of how to treat others and making everyone feel needed and appreciated. Our society is known as an obese nation, and this is causing many avoidable diseases. We need to educate our society on how to make healthy food choices, and how to become physically active. Society cannot achieve optimal health if the environment around us is not healthy. Protecting the planet from pollutants in our water...
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...Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Physical health is the way your body looks and the way it reacts to things. For example I am not in the perfect shape but I am ok with my body weight and the way it looks. Social health: Social health is how well you interact with others. Me I am very much in social health I love talking to anyone and everyone Intellectual health: Intellectual health is basically how educated you are, are you able to make responsible decisions? How fast can you think on your feet? Environmental health: How conscious are you when it comes to the earth? Do you do your part in taking care of our planet? I on the other hand do my part by not littering and trying to stay green and organic. Emotional health: How well can you express emotion? How well can you understand your own emotions and express them? Are you emotions appropriate or do you over react? Me sometimes I have nervous breakdowns after weeks and weeks of stress and emotion overload. Spiritual health: This is basically just believing in something more and being spiritually well balanced and living a life based on the concept of doing well. Me I am spiritual but not religious in any way I believe that things always happen...
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...Health and wellness is a necessity nowadays while serving in the United States Military. It has always been a priority in the later years in order to ready for war. Back in the days of the previous wars, there was no such thing as annual fitness tests to see if military members were in shape for war. Back in those days, no one was being kicked out of the military for not having a certain waist measurement. Today, an emphasis on physical fitness has increased to a point where the military is losing a vast number of members due to not being physically fit according to guidelines that have been established. The new regulation established by the Air Force has some people second guessing the powers that be who are in authority over us. They think the lack of preparation for war and more emphasis on fitness has caused the leaders of the Air Force to lose sight of what is really important. Members with many years of job experience are submitting retirement requests just to keep from either being victims of the new fitness guidelines or just because they don’t want to deal with it. There are some who are unnecessarily being forced out of the military because they did not meet a certain fitness criteria. The Air Force’s fitness test consists of being able to run a mile and a half, push ups, sit ups and waist measurement. The maximum size waist that a woman can have is a thirty-five and a half inches and the maximum for a man is 39??? The age groups are in ten year...
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...1.0 Executive Summary The state of America's health care crisis, coupled with current demographic changes, threaten to not only exacerbate the crisis, but further erode worker productivity as well. These environmental factors coupled with the local competitive situation signal a favorable opportunity in this market. We feel the time is right for New Look. 2.0 Environmental Analysis Health clubs are service facilities that are intended to provide physical health care exercises with the help of specialized equipment. It normally serves both male and female customers but in some cases customized for specific genders depending on market needs. Normally, the environment is made casual to provide customers comfortable experience that helps them perform bodybuilding and other exercises with ease. According to a 2009 report by the International Health, Racquet & Sports club Association (IHRSA), the total number of gym memberships in the US is roughly 45.3 million, and about 64.9 million visitors in about 29,750 health clubs . As more Americans are becoming more health conscience, and doctors constantly advocating more for daily physically activity, fitness clubs will continually be in growing demand. The state that has the highest percentage of fitness membership, Colorado, is the ideal location for New Look: Fitness, Health, and Wellness Club. With 22% of its population already interested in bettering their lives, this company will thrive over other gyms that offer the normal...
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...Ainsley Stewart Health and Wellness Prof. Michael Wagstaff Hepatitis A What is the infectious agent (pathogen) that causes this infectious disease? Hepatitis A virus HAV is an RNA virus classified as a picornavirus. How is this infectious agent transmitted through food or water? There are a number of ways that one can get the HAV and there are; person-to-person contact; through exposure to contaminated water, ice, or shellfish harvested from sewage-contaminated water; or from fruits, vegetables, or other foods that are eaten uncooked and that were contaminated during harvesting or subsequent handling. HAV is shed in the feces of infected people. The virus reaches peak levels 1–2 weeks before onset of symptoms and diminishes rapidly after liver dysfunction or symptoms appear, which is concurrent with the appearance of circulating antibodies to HAV. Infants and children, however, may shed virus for up to 6 months after infection. What is an example of a real life outbreak of this foodborne illness in the United States? The occurrence of hepatitis A in the United States is heterogeneous because of disease cycles with substantial variation in incidence among states and involvement of numerous behavioral risk factors. In spite of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) 1999 recommendation for routine hepatitis A immunization in states with high rates of disease and the fact that disease rates are at a historic low, outbreaks continue to occur...
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...& M.J. Stampfer, 2002). This guide was intended to educate the average consumer as to what they should be eating to improve their health and their body’s functions. Today, with advances in technology, scientists are realizing that abiding by the portions described in the food pyramid may not be the best way to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Armed with this new knowledge they have revised the food pyramid to help you optimize your body’s potential. The food groups in the new pyramid contain the following: 1. Vegetables and Fruits/ Healthy Fats and Oils/ Whole Grains, 2. Nuts, Seeds, Beans and Tofu/ Fish, Poultry, and Eggs, 3. Dairy or Vitamin D and Calcium Supplements, and 4. Red Meat, Butter, and Refined Grains. This essay will explain some of the benefits to sticking to a well rounded diet that follows the recommended servings laid out in the food pyramid. Vegetables, fruits, healthy fats and oils, and whole grains are the foundation of the new food pyramid. It is recommended that you consume at least 5 servings per day from this group. They are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and fiber. The antioxidants and other nutrients in fruits and vegetables help protect against certain types of cancer and other diseases. Healthy fats and oils such as Omega 3 “help promote normal body function, [and] even promote good emotional health, weight loss, and lower your chances of developing cardiovascular problems” (S. Goodwin). Whole grains contain fiber as well. Eating...
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...I decided to increase my GPA from 2.5 to 3.0 by the end of this fall 2013 semester. I currently take 4 classes, in which I will come up with a plan to achieve my goal to have a 3.0 by the end of the semester. When students earn a below average grade on examinations or a report card, it does not necessarily mean that they did not study hard enough. There are many intelligent children who do not perform well in school, not because they cannot comprehend classroom lessons, but because of external factors that affect their academic success. Many factors have been identified to influence academic performance whether positively or negatively. One of these factors that the researcher’s identified is the living situation of college students. The living situations that a college student experience are varied due to the diversity of housing options and environments available. Some of the aspects of college student living environments may act as stress factors in students’ lives. The stress related to living situations that college students’ experience has several sources including relationships with roommates, the condition of the rooms, apartments, or houses that students inhabit, the neighborhood, area on campus, and general living environment. These sources of stress undoubtedly have an impact on the student’s academic performance. Academic performance is the evidence how well a student meets standards set out by local government and the institution itself. The extent of student’s...
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