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| Question | Answer |
| Disease | An alteration in body structure or biochemistry that is significant enough to cause the body's regulatory mechanisms to fail. Symptoms may or may not be present. |
| Illness | A subjective state in which a person feels unwell. Disease may or may not be present. |
| Health | More than merely the absence of disease, a state of well-being that encompasses physical, social, psychological, and other dimensions and is a resource of everyday life. |
| Wellness | An active process through which people become aware of, and make choices toward, a more successful existence. |
| Life Expectancy | The average number of years a person may expect to live. |
| Healthy People Initiative | A federal initiative to facilitate broad, positive health changes in large segments of the U.S. population every 10 years. |
| Health Disparities | Gaps in the rate and burden of disease and the access to and quality of health care among various population groups. |
| Healthy Campus | An offshoot of the Healthy People Initiative, specifically geared toward college students. |
| Determinants of Health | The range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status, |
| Status Syndrome | The disparity in health status and rates of premature mortality between impoverished and the affluent within any given society. |
| Health Literacy | The ability to evaluate and understand health information and to make informed choices for your health care. |
| Behavior Change | A sustained change in a habit or pattern of behavior that affects your health. |
| Predisposing Factor | A physical, mental, emotional, or surrounding influence that affects the likelihood that a person will decide to change a current behavior. |
| Enabling Factor | A skill, social support, or resources that makes it possible (or easier) to succeed in changing a targeted behavior. |
| Reinforcing Factor | An encouragement or a reward that promotes successful behavior change; negative reinforcers are barriers that oppose change. |
| Transtheroretical Model of Behavior Change | A model of behavior change that focuses on decision-making steps and abilities. Also called the stages of change model. |
| *Health Belief Model* | A model of behavior change emphasizing the influence of personal beliefs on the process of creating effective change. |
| Ecological Model | Any of a variety of behavior-change models that acknowledge the creation of a supportive environment as being equally important to achieving change as an individual's acquisition of health information and development of new skills. |
| Shaping | A behavior-change technique based on breaking broad goals into more manageable steps. |
| Self-Efficacy | The conviction that you can successfully execute the behavior required to make the change you desire. |
| Locus of Control | A person's belief about where the center of power lies in his or her life; it can be external or internal. |
| Modeling | A behavior-change technique based on watching and learning from others. |
| Self-Talk | A person's internal dialogue. |
| Self-Monitoring | A behavior-change technique in which the individual observes and records aspects of his or her behavior-change process. |
| Relapse | A return to the previous state or patter of behavior. |
| Cue Control | A behavior-change technique in which the individual learns to change the stimuli that provoked the lapse. |
| Counter-Conditioning | A behavior-change technique in which the individual learns to substitute a healthful or neutral behavior for an unwanted behavior triggered by a cue beyond his or her control. |
| Advocacy | Working independently or with others to directly improve aspects of the social or physical environment; or to change policies or legislation. |
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