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Scientific Foundations of Health

(SFH)
Sub Code: BSFHK108/208
Module-1
Good Health and It’s balance for positive mindset:
• What is Health?
• Health can be defined as a state of complete physical, mental, social
and spiritual well being, which consists in maintaining the body as
much as possible by following daily advice and preventive measures
to reduce the possibility of diseases.
• Health has an important role in feeling happy, as there are many
people who suffer from diseases, but the health enables them to fight
diseases, as a result, they achieve physical fitness and feel
comfortable or enjoy life like any normal person.
Why Health is So Important?
• Health is the body’s functional and metabolic efficiency, and its ability
to adapt to the physical, mental, and social changes that it is exposed
to.
• Health is the opposite of disease, and also means the safety of the
body from physical, social, and mental disorders.
• Health is the factor that helps a person perform his daily life tasks in a
correct and right way.
• A person’s physical health means that the body does not have any
diseases in all parts of his body, and the safety of all its membranes.
• While mental and social health is represented by the ability of a
person to complete social tasks assigned to him without defect or error.
Importance of good health in human life :
• A healthy person is a person who is able to work himself, his nation and his community.
• The importance of health for a person is that it saves him the costs of treatment and the trouble of
going to hospitals.
• Psychologically healthy people feel comfortable and happy in their lives and enjoy life well.
• Helps you live longer
• Feel better about yourself
• Life insurance is cheaper
• Lower levels of stress and anxiety
• Limit the desire for the addictive substance
• Better vision by healthy diet and cardio-vascular exercise.
• Lower medical costs
• increase in fertility
• Satisfying life and good self esteem.
What influences your Health?
Health beliefs
1. What people have faith in about their health
2. What they think creäte their health
3. What they think through the cause of their illness and ways to
overcome it.
4. Beliefs are culturally determined, and all come together to form larger
health belief systems.
5. The health belief model (HBM) attempts to predict health-related
behavior in terms of certain belief patterns.
6. A person’s motivation to undertake a health behavior is categorized :
individual perceptions, modifying factors, and possibility of action.
How does advertising affect our health?
1. Food industry advertising that targets children and youth has been
linked to the increase of childhood obesity.
2. Advertising by other industries often objectifies girls and women,
contributing to body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, low self-respect
and depression.
3. The concept of “good advertising makes us believe that something is
better than actually is” doesn’t have to do with buying things that we
don’t like just because we saw it on the internet
4. Advertisers think about what consumers want and need, and how
they can meet those wants and needs.
Health and Society

• Adults who are socially active live longer and are healthier than their
more isolated peers. Social relationships are energetic to maintaining
good health.
• Equally, social isolation creates health risks. Studies have shown that
for patients with coronary artery disease, social isolation creates
added risk of death.
• Good health is an important enabler of positive family and
community life.
• It supports people to participate in, and contribute to, society in
different ways.
Health and Behavior

1. Health behavior refers to activities that an individual engages in that


affect their health either positively or negatively.
2. The activities may be intentional or unintentional, and can promote or
detract from the health of the actor or others.
3. Actions examples - smoking, substance use, diet, physical activity,
sleep, risky sexual activities, health care seeking behaviors, and
adherence to prescribed medical treatments.
4. Addressing health behaviors requires strategies to encourage
individuals to engage in healthy behaviors and access nutritious food,
safe spaces to be physically active, and support to make healthy choices.
Health and Family
• Umberson (1987) states that family members
influence health behaviours through indirect and
direct control mechanisms.

• Family members may also directly regulate one’s


health behaviour by physical means and supportive
behaviours.
• Every family member can influence another family member’s health attitudes and
behaviours through communication.

• Research reveals that critical comments from family members predicts the chance of
relapse in depression, eating disorders, and schizophrenia.

• Family members can support our decision to enact healthier behaviours.


Health and Personality

• Through its influence on thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and environments,


personality is one of the best psychological predictors of physical health.

• Personality is measured using the Big Five framework made up of


extroversion, conscientiousness, openness, neuroticism, and agreeableness

• The disordered personality was significantly predictive of worse physical


functioning, role limitations, fatigue, and pain.

• In the workplace, your personality affects how you interact with your
colleagues, managers, and clients and it may also have an impact on your
earnings potential, your career trajectory, and job satisfaction.
Psychological disorders (Stress and Health - Stress management)
• Stress can be defined as any type of change that causes physical, emotional, or
psychological strain.
• Stress is your body’s response to anything that requires attention or action.
• Signs: Psychological, Emotional, Physical & Behavioural.
• Types of Stresses
• Acute stress is a very short-term type of stress that can either be positive or more
distressing; this is the type of stress we most often encounter in day-to-day life.
• Chronic stress is stress that seems never-ending and inescapable, like the stress of a
bad marriage or an extremely taxing job.
• Episodic acute stress is acute stress that seems to run rampant and be a way of life,
creating a life of ongoing distress.
• Eustress is fun and exciting. It’s known as a positive type of stress that
can keep you energized. It’s associated with surges of adrenaline.
• Coping with Stresses

• Learn to recognize the signs of burnout. High levels of stress may


place you at a high risk of burnout. Burnout can leave you feeling
exhausted and apathetic about your job.

• When you start to feel symptoms of emotional exhaustion, it’s a sign


that you need to find a way to get a handle on your stress.

• Try to get regular exercise. Physical activity has a big impact on your
brain and your body. Exercise reduces stress and improves many
symptoms associated with mental illness.
• Take care of yourself. Incorporating regular self-care activities into
your daily life is essential to stress management. Learn how to take
care of your mind, body, and spirit and discover how to equip yourself
to live your best life.

• Practice mindfulness in your life. Mindfulness isn’t just something you


practice for 10 minutes each day. It can also be a way of life. Discover
how to live more mindfully throughout your day so you can become
more awake and conscious throughout your life.

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