Key Terms 📚
- Health Habits 🔄: Your usual health-related behaviors!
- Risk Factors ⚠️: Behaviors that increase illness chance!
Types of Health Behavior 🏃
- Health Behavior 💪: Any activity to stay healthy!
- Wellness Behavior 😊: Activities to KEEP good health!
- Symptom-Based Behavior 🤒: What you do when feeling sick!
- Sick-Role Behavior 🛏️: What you do to GET well after deciding you're sick!
Three Levels of Prevention 🛡️
1. Primary Prevention 🛡️1️⃣
- Actions to AVOID disease! 🚫🦠
- Before illness happens! ⬅️🤒
- Examples: Vaccines 💉, Healthy eating 🥗, Exercise 🏃
2. Secondary Prevention 🛡️2️⃣
- Find & treat illness EARLY! 🔍
- Examples: Screening tests 🧪, Check-ups 🏥
3. Tertiary Prevention 🛡️3️⃣
- Limit damage, prevent disability! 🏥
- Rehabilitation! 💪
Primary Prevention Methods ✅
- Genetic Counseling 🧬: Telling people their risk for inherited diseases!
- Immunization 💉: Vaccines to prevent specific diseases!
Key Takeaways 🔑
- Your habits affect your health! 🔄💪
- Prevention has 3 levels! 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣
- Primary prevention = BEST (stop disease before it starts!) 🛡️✅
- Vaccines save lives! 💉🛡️