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Health Care
9th Grade
06/04/2008

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Term
Health
Definition
State of well being
Term
Six components of health
Definition
  • Physical, Emotional, Social, Mental, Spiritual, and Environmental Health.
Term
Wellness:
Definition
achievement of a person’s best in all six components of health.
Term
Value
Definition
  • A strong belief or ideal.
Term
Influences on wellness
Definition
, Social, Cultural, and Environmental.
Term
Consequences
Definition
  • a result of your actions and decisions.
Term

Collaborate:

Definition
to work together with one or more people
Term
Peer Pressure:
Definition
  • a feeling that you should do something because it is what your friends want.
Term
Direct Pressure:
Definition
  • The pressure that results from someone who tries to convince you to do something you normally wouldn’t do.
Term
Indirect Pressure:
Definition
  • : the pressure that results from being swayed to do something because people you look up to are doing it.
Term
Great decisions:
Definition
  • : Give thought to the problem, review your choices, and evaluate the consequences of each choice.
Term
Self-Esteem
Definition
  • : a measure of how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself.
Term
Emotions:
Definition
the feeling that is produced in response to life experiences.
Term
Defense Mechanisms
Definition
  • an unconscious behavior used to avoid experiencing unpleasant emotions.
Term
Mental health:
Definition
  • The state of mental well-being in which one can cope with the demands of daily life.
Term
  • A sadness and hopelessness that keeps a person from carrying out everyday activities.
Definition
Depression:
Term
Making up in one area by achieving in another.
Definition
Compensation:
Term
imagining pleasant things that take mind off the unpleasant reality
Definition
Daydreaming:
Term
  • : Shifting feeling about one person or situation to another person or situation.
Definition
Displacement
Term
copying someone you think highly of because you don’t feel good about who you are.
Definition
Idealization:
Term
  • : making excuses for or justifying behavior.
Definition
Rationalization
Term
Reacting to emotions in a child like or immature fashion.
Definition
regression
Term
Blocking out painful thoughts or feelings
Definition
repression
Term
  • excessive or persistent fear of something that may or may not cause real danger, such as spider, elevator, or giving a speech.
Definition
phobias
Term
  • Repeated, disturbing, and unwanted thoughts.
Definition
OCD
Term
obsessive behavior and thought about weight control.
Definition
eating disorders
Term
uncontrollable cycles of extreme happiness and then depression
Definition
Bipolar disorder:
Term
false perceptions of reality
Definition
Schizophrenia:
Term
a positive stress that energizes a person and helps a person reach a goal
Definition
Eustress:
Term
  • a negative stress that can make a person sick or can keep them from reaching a goal.
Definition
Distress:
Term
  • Take care of yourself, Learn to relax, Build Resiliency, Change your attitude, Manage your time.
Definition
Dealing with stress:
Term
  • headaches, tense muscles, heat attack, weak immune system.
Definition
Long term effects of stress
Term
express deep sadness because of a loss.
Definition
Grieve:
Term
  • alarm stage, resistance stage, exhaustion stage.
Definition
Stages of stress
Term
the act of intentionally taking one’s own life.
Definition
suicide
Term
  • Feeling hopeless, withdrawing from family and friends, neglecting basic needs, experiencing loss of energy, taking more risks, using alcohol or drugs, and giving away personal things.
Definition
Warning signs of suicide:
Term
any situation that puts a demand on the body or mind
Definition

Stressor:

Term
the body’s and mind’s response to a demand
Definition
Stress:
Term
  • during this  you body provides you with the energy, reflexes, and strength you may need to respond to the stressor. Your body releases epinephrine, a hormone that prepares the body for quick action by triggering the changes in your body.
Definition
Fight or flight
Term
science or study of food and the ways in which the body uses food.
Definition
Nutrition:
Term
a class of energy-giving nutrients; also the main form of energy storage in the body
Definition
fats
Term
a class of nutrients that are made up of amino acids, which are needed to build and repair body structures and to regulate processes in the body
Definition
protein
Term
a class of nutrients that contain carbon and are needed in small amounts to maintain health and allow growth.
Definition
vitamins
Term
a class of nutrients that are chemical elements that are needed for certain body processes, such as enzyme activity and bone formation.
Definition
minerals
Term
necesasary for almost every function that keeps you alive.
Definition

water

Term
simple and complex; simple are made of single or double sugar molecules, complex are made of many sugar molecules that are linked together. It’s a class of energy-giving nutrients that include sugars, starches and fiber.
Definition
carbs
Term
a dietary pattern that includes few or no animal products.
Definition
·       Vegetarian
Term
: fats made of saturated fatty acids.
Definition
Saturated Fats
Term
fats made of unsaturated fatty acids.
Definition
Unsaturated fats:
Term
: a type of lipid, found in all human and animal tissues.
Definition
·       Cholesterol
Term
a visual tool for planning your diet that divides foods into six food groups.
Definition
Food Guide Pyramid:
Term
the body’s physical response to the need for food.
Definition
Hunger
Term
the desire, rather that the need, to eat certain food
Definition
appetite
Term
  • the minimum amount of energy required to keep the body alive when in a rested and fasting state.
Definition
BMR
Term
  • having excess body fat for one’s weight; the state of weighing more that 20 percent above your recommended weight.
Definition
obesity
Term
Factor that influence weight are:
Definition
  • : heredity, exercise, what you eat.
Term
  • a diet that requires major changes in your eating habits and promises quick results.
Definition
Fad diet:
Term
  • how your see and feel about your appearance and how comfortable you are with your body
Definition
Body image:
Term
: an eating disorder that involves self-starvation, a distoted body image, and low body weight.
Definition
Anorexia nervosa
Term
  • ; and eating disorder in which the individual repeatedly eats large amounts of food and then uses behaviors such as vomiting or using laxatives to rid the body of the food.
Definition
Bulimia nervosa
Term
Cross contamination
Definition
: the transfer of contaminants from one food to another
Term
the drug in wine, beer, and liquor that causes intoxication
Definition
alcohol
Term
  • irritated mouth, throat, esophagus, and stomach; heart works harder; body loses heat; the liver works harder; causes dehydration.
Definition
Short term effects
Term
  • : the amount of alcohol in a person’s blood, expressed as a percentage.
 
Definition
BAC
Term
 brain damage; irritation in mouth, throat, etc; irregular heart beat; hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver cancer; diminished immune system, decreased ability to absorb vitamins.
Definition
Long Term effects:
Term
: the act of drinking five or more drinks in one sitting.
Definition
binge drinking
Term
a deadly disease that replaces healthy liver tissue with scar tissue
Definition
Cirrhosis
Term
Factors that influence how fast you get drunk are:
Definition
  • weight, amount of alcohol consumed in a period of time, and if you’re a male or female.
Term
  • : a set of physical and mental defects that affect a fetus that has been exposed to alcohol because of the mother’s consumption of alcohol during pregnancy.
Definition
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Term
The amount of alcohol found in a typical drink is about:
Definition
1.25oz
Term
How long does it take for your liver to break down the alcohol and move it out of your system?:
Definition
45 min
Term
can kill you…the number one cause of death among teens in
  • motor vehicles accidents…alcohol slows your reaction time, affects your vision, makes you drowsy, reduces your coordination, affects your judgment.
 
Definition
drunk driving
Term
  • a person who chooses not to drink alcohol in a social setting so that he or she can safely drive himself or herself and others.
Definition
Designated driver
Term
highly addictive drug that is found in all tobacco products.
Definition
Nicotine
Term
any chemical or agent that cause cancer.
Definition
Carcinogen
Term
Tar:
Definition
  • a sticky, black substance in tobacco smoke that coats the inside of the airways and that contains many carcinogens.
Term
  • a gas that blocks oxygen from getting into the bloodstream.
  • Short term effects of tobacco: stimulates the brain reward system, increases heart rate and blood pressure, increases breathing rate, increases blood-sugar levels, and it stimulates the vomit reflex.
Definition
Carbon Monoxide:
Term
  • Addiction, Bronchitis, Emphysema, Heart and Artery Diseases, Cancer, Immune system suppression, damaged stomach, bad breath, ugliness.
Definition
Long term effects of tobacco:
Term
  • the white pre-cancerous spots in your mouth.
Definition
Leukoplakia
Term
  • : a respiratory disease in which air cannot move in and out of alveoli because they become blocked or lose their elasticity.
Definition
Emphysema
Term
smoke that escapes from the tip of a cigarette, cigar, or pipe.
Definition
Sidestream smoke:
Term
  • : smoke that is inhaled through a cigarette and then exhaled by a cigarette smoker.
Definition
Mainstream smoke
Term
  • can lead to miscarriage, premature birth, and low birth weight. It can effect a fetus’ brain, causing developmental difficulties.
Definition
Tobacco use during pregnancy:
Term
  • taking of too much of a drug, which causes sickness, loss of consciousness, permanent damage, or even death.
Definition
Overdose
Term
  • the intentional improper or unsafe use of a drug.
Definition
drug abuse
Term
  • the dried flowers and leaves of the plant cannabis sativa that are smoked or mixed in food and eaten for intoxicating effects.
Definition
Marijuana:
Term
  • a drug that is inhaled as a vapor.
Definition
Inhalants:
Term
also called designer drugs; a drug made to closely resemble a common illegal drug in chemical structure and effect.
Definition
Club drugs:
Term
a synthetic version of the male hormone testosterone that is used to promote muscle development
Definition
Anabolic steroids:
Term
  • a drug that temporarily increases a person’s energy and alertness.
Definition
Stimulants:
Term
  • : a drug that causes relaxation and sleepiness.
Definition
Depressants
Term
  • a drug that distorts perceptions, causing the user to see or hear things that are not real.
Definition
Hallucinogens:
Term
  • : pain killers.
Definition

Narcotics

Term
  • : snort, plug, smoke, inject, eat, drink.
Definition
Methods of use
Term
  • any disease that is caused by an agent that has invaded the body.
Definition
Infectious disease
Term
any agent that causes disease.
Definition
Pathogen
Term
tiny, single-celled organisms, some of which can cause disease.
Definition
Bacteria:
Term
  • : a tiny disease-causing particle that consists of genetic material and a protein coat.
Definition
Virus
Term

an organism that absorbs and uses nutrients of living or dead organisms.

Definition
Fungi:
Term
  • lice, tapeworms, and certain round worms….need to live on a living thing.
Definition
Parasites:
Term
  • malaria; single celled, microscopic organisms that are larger and more complex internally that bacteria.
Definition
Protozoans:
Term
How are infectious diseases spread
Definition
  • person to person; food and water; environment; and animals.
Term
How are infectious diseases spread
Definition
  • person to person; food and water; environment; and animals.
Term
  • : work by preventing the growth and division of bacterial cells. They are medicines used to kill or slow the growth of bacteria.
Definition
Antibiotics:
Term
: it is made up of types of blood cells and proteins called antibodies, which move through the blood vessels and are within your organs. They also move through the lymphatic system, a network of vessels that carry a clear fluid called lymph throughout the body. The lymphatic system often picks up bacteria or virus and carries them to your lymph nodes, which are filled with white blood cells, whose primary job is to defend the body against disease.
Definition
How the immune system works
Term
an emergency technique in which a rescuer gives air to someone who is not breathing
Definition
rescue breathing
Term

Cardio Pulmenary Recessitation

 

Definition
CPR
Term

a break or tear in the soft tissues of the body

 

Definition

open wound

Term
bleeding within the body
Definition
closed wound
Term
lay victim down, elevate legs, if from head put in a half reclining seat, follow the blood to the wound expose it, place a dressing over, and apply direct pressure with hand, if bleeding ocntinues, apply pressure to a pressure point nearest the wound between it and the heart.
Definition
controling bleeding
Term
a condition when the body is a higher temp that normal
Definition
heat exaustion
Term
when the body loses the ability to cool itself by sweating because dehydration
Definition
heatstroke
Term
injury to the ligaments in a joint
Definition

sprain

Term
an injury to a muscle or tendon ...strectched or pulled to far
Definition
strain
Term

a hairline fracture to a full break

Definition
fracture
Term

an injury which a bone has been forced out of its normal position in a joint.

Definition
dislocation
Term
first, secon, third
Definition
burns
Term
a break of the skin
Definition
punture
Term
laceration
Definition
a road burn
Term
bleeding under the skin
Definition
bruise
Term
treatment for cuts and bruises
Definition
RICE
Term
a fracture out of the skin
Definition

 

OPEN

Term
a fracture under the skin
Definition
CLOSED
Term
a law that you can apply first aid to someone if they need it...but only to a certain extent
Definition
good samaritan law
Term

made in the bone marrow, attack cells that have been infected by viruses.

Definition
t-cells
Term
  • : also made in bone marrow, the make antibodies that attack viruses in the blood.
Definition
b-cells
Term
a covering on your body of dead cells compressed to make you virtually
Definition
skin
Term
  • the blood cells whose main job is to defend the body against disease.
Definition
white blood cells
Term
  • : a substance usually prepared from killed or weakened pathogens of from genetic material and that is introduced into a body to produce immunity.
Definition
vaccines
Term
  • 1. incubation stage- no symptoms yet,2. prodromal stage- start to have symptoms but not super sick yet, 3. illness stage- symptoms are full blown, 4. recovery stage- high chance of getting it again.
Definition
stages of illness
Term
an inflammation of the liver.
Definition
hepatitis
Term
  • Human imuno deficiency virus.
Definition

HIV

Term
  • blood cell that activates the immune response and that is primary target cell of HIV infection.
Definition
helper t-cells
Term
  • an illness that is due to an organism that causes disease in people with weakened immune systems; commonly found in AIDS patients.
Definition
Opportunistic disease
Term
  • the first test you take to find out if you have HIV.
Definition
Elisa Test
Term
  • : Confirms HIV
Definition
Western Blot test
Term
  • a stage of an infection in which the infectious agent, such as HIV, is present but there are few or no symptoms of the infection.
Definition
Asymptomatic Stage
Term
  • : describes a person who test positive in two different HIV tests.
Definition
HIV positive:
Term
  • an STD that is cause by a bacterium that infects mucous membranes including the genital mucous membranes.
Definition
Gonorrhea
Term
  • : Sexually Transmitted Disease.
Definition
STD
Term
  • a bacterial STD that causes ulcers or chancres; if untreated, it can lead to mental and physical disabilities and premature death.
Definition
Syphilis:
Term
  • a bacterial STD that infect the reproductive organ and that causes a mucous discharge.
Definition
chlamydia
Term
fluid exchange, skin to skin.
Definition
how to contract STDs
Term
  • Warts; simplex 1, cold sores, simplex 2, genitals.
Definition
HPV
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