Adult Health and Wellness Planning Flashcards
Grade 12 · Health · Flashcards
Key terms, concepts, and screening benchmarks for comprehensive adult health and wellness planning.
Flashcards
- Primary prevention
- Actions taken to prevent a disease or injury before it occurs, such as vaccinations, healthy eating, and not smoking.
- Secondary prevention
- Early detection of disease before symptoms appear, such as mammograms, colonoscopies, and blood pressure screenings.
- Tertiary prevention
- Managing an existing disease to slow progression and reduce complications, such as cardiac rehab after a heart attack.
- Metabolic syndrome
- A cluster of conditions — high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess waist fat, and abnormal cholesterol — that together raise risk of heart disease and diabetes.
- LDL cholesterol
- 'Bad' cholesterol that deposits plaque in artery walls; optimal levels are below 100 mg/dL for most adults.
- HDL cholesterol
- 'Good' cholesterol that helps remove LDL from the arteries; higher levels (above 60 mg/dL) are protective against heart disease.
- A1C test
- A blood test reflecting average blood glucose over 2-3 months; used to diagnose and monitor type 2 diabetes (normal below 5.7%).
- Mental health continuum
- A model showing mental health as a spectrum from thriving to languishing, rather than simply present or absent.
- Sleep hygiene
- Practices that promote consistent, quality sleep, including regular sleep times, limiting screens before bed, and a cool, dark sleep environment.
- Sedentary behavior
- Extended periods of low-energy activity such as prolonged sitting; associated with increased cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk independent of exercise.
- Health literacy
- The ability to find, understand, and use health information and services to make informed decisions about one's own health.
- Advance directive
- A legal document (such as a living will or healthcare proxy) that specifies a person's healthcare wishes if they become unable to make decisions.
- Social determinants of health
- Conditions in environments where people are born, live, work, and age — including income, education, and access to care — that shape health outcomes.
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