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Correct Answers (100% Pass)
Classifications of risk factors
✓ Modifiable/ controllable
✓ &
✓ Non-modifiable/ non-controllable
Major risk factor for major diseases like cardiovascular disease, cancer,
diabetes, alzheimers
✓ Age
✓
✓ (accounts for 90% of deaths in industrialized nations)
Telomeres
✓ caps on the end of strands of DNA
Risk factors based on sex:
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✓ -men have higher risk of cancer and coronary heart disease than
women
✓
✓ -reasons: behavioral reasons, alcohol & smoking, engage in riskier
behaviors, more likely to not report their problems
Risk factors based on family history:
✓ Some diseases are clearly heritable. Ex: Huntington's Disease, 90% of
cases
✓
✓ Lifestyle choices and early life environment determined by family
members
Types of Prevention:
✓ Primary: make efforts to stop the disease from beginning in the first
place
✓
✓ Secondary: People who are sick but aren't aware. (SCREENING)
✓
✓ Tertiary: Prevention done after the fact that the person is already sick
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Health Belief Model
✓ decisions about health are made based on: perceived susceptibility,
severity of health threat, benefits of action, and barriers to action
Theory of Planned Behavior
✓ Behavioral intention indicates likelihood of change.
✓
✓ Attitude, influence of societal norms, and perception of control over
behavior
Transtheoretical Model
✓ Precontemplation
✓ Contemplation
✓ Preparation
✓ Action
✓ Maintenance
✓ Relapse (sometimes)
Health Promotion
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✓ Efforts to help people change lifestyle to achieve optimal health
✓
✓ Give people control over health
✓
✓ Modify public policy
✓
✓ "behavioral social science"
What is stress?
✓ a negative emotional experience accompanied by predictable
biochemical, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral changes that
are directed either toward altering the stressful event or
accommodating to its effects
Claude Bernard
✓ Advocate for looking at things through reductionism
✓
✓ Argued we need balance
Walter Cannon
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