1. Health simply means the antithesis of sickness. To others, it means being in a good physical shape and able to resist illness. Wellness is to include a wide array of factors that lead to positive health status. Wellness also includes a healthy “quality of life” which implies that there were lives of health in each category. Health promotion describes the educational, organizational, procedural, environmental, social and financial supports that help individuals and groups reduce negative health behavior and promote positive change. Disease prevention: means taking positive actions now to avoid becoming sick later. There are three types of preventions, primary, secondary, and tertiary. The real healthy means optimum wellness, which include heartiness, good social health, intellectual health, environmental health, spiritual health, and good physical health.
2. In 1990, in response to the indications that Americans were not as healthy as they should be, the U.S. Surgeon General proposed national plans for promoting health among individual and groups. Known as “Healthy People 2000”, the plan outlined a series of long-term objectives. Despite many communities working toward achieving this goal, as a nation we still had a long way to go by the new millennium.
3. Researches are discovering that the same diseases and treatments can affect men and women very differently. a) The size, structure, and function of the brain differ in women and men. b) Bone mass in women peaks in their twenties; in men, it peaks gradually until age 30. c) Women’s cardiovascular system is differing in size, shape, and nervous system impulses and women have faster heart rates. d) Women’s immune systems are stronger than men’s but women are more prone to autoimmune
