researchers investigated University students on their nutrients belief and their health behavior intention. In order to gather data for this study researchers used an online survey in which they received 253 questionnaires in return (Hak- Sean et al.‚ 2012). This survey only targeted students who had knowledge of how important nutrient is to their health. By students having the knowledge of how important eating healthy is to their health demonstrated the HBM theory. In which people were knowledgeable
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BIO-PSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS INTRODUCTION The medical model has been the predominant approach used by physicians in diagnosing and management of diseases and illness in most Western countries. The biomedical model of illness and healing focuses on purely biological factors‚ and excludes psychological‚ environmental‚ and social influences. According to this model‚ good health is the freedom from pain‚ disease‚ or defect. It focuses on physical processes that affect health‚ such as the
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Portal Hypertension Abdominal Ultrasound Portal hypertension is a pathologic condition characterized by an excessive increase in the pressure within the portal vein or one of its branches. Typical portal vein pressure is 5 to 10 millimeters of mercury (abbreviated mmHg). When the pressure exceeds 5 mmHg above inferior vena cava pressure‚ it is characterized as portal hypertension. The portal vein carries nutrient rich blood from the digestive system to the liver. Normally‚ the veins come from
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Running head: The effects of hypertension The Causes of Hypertension and Effect on the Cardiovascular Syst Course: HSC 46 Annotated Bibiography Appel‚ L. J.‚ H.‚ Jackson.W.T.‚ Greene‚ T .‚. Agodoa‚ L.Y.‚ Astor‚ B.C . Bakris‚ G.L .‚ William H. Cleveland‚ W.H.‚ Charleston‚ J.‚Gabriel Contreras‚ G .‚ Faulkner‚M.L.‚Gabba F.B.‚ Gassman‚ J.J.‚ Lee A. Hebert.‚ . Jamerson‚ K. A.‚ Kopple‚J.D.‚ Kusek‚ J. W.‚ Lash‚J. P.‚ Janice P. Lea.‚ Julia B. Lewis.‚ Lipkowit‚ M. S.‚Massry‚S.G.‚ Mille‚ E. R
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Michael Franchina Comm. 3300 5/7/10 Hypertension‚ also known as high blood pressure‚ is a chronic condition in which blood pressure is elevated. “Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of arteries as it flows through them. Arteries are the blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood from the heart to the body ’s tissues. As blood flows through arteries it pushes against the inside of the artery walls. The more pressure the blood exerts on the artery walls‚ the higher
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High blood pressure in the lungs is called pulmonary hypertension or pulmonary arterial hypertension. Pulmonary hypertension is high blood pressure in the arteries starting from the heart towards the lungs. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is defined as a sustained elevation of the pulmonary arterial pressure to greater than 25 mmHg at rest or greater than 30 mmHg following exercise‚ with a mean pulmonary-capillary wedge pressure (an indirect measure of left atrial pressure) of less than 15
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As described by Luquis (2014) the PEN-3 model‚ contributes to health promotion within ethnic and minority communities by including the cultural aspects of the community in the health education plan. Originally created to address the disease prevention of HIV/AIDS in Africa‚ the PEN-3 program consists of three domains or parts‚ each with a cultural approach (Luquis‚ 2014). The Pen-3 model incorporates the practices and beliefs of the community into the plan and focuses on the positive and unique qualities
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discuss the biomedical model and social model of health and how they relate to lay perspective on health and illness. For this essay I will be analytically examining the models of health; the biomedical model and social model. I will explain the advantages and disadvantages of these models and how they relate to the lay person’s viewpoint on health and illness. Models of health are ‘conceptual frameworks’ or another method of thinking about health. The biomedical model of health has been around since
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a patient who was overweight‚ I have considered the application of the Pender’s Health Promotion Model (HPM). Some of the concepts from Pender’s theory suggests that individuals seek to regulate their behavior‚ interact with the environment and are influenced by health providers (Nursing Theory‚ 2015). In addition‚ humans seek to self-initiate and self-regulate changes in behavior (Nursing Theory‚ 2015). This model can be utilized to create a framework that will address the factors associated with
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Health is a complex and challenged concept with a variety of different definitions. The traditional definition solely focused on disease and injury to define health. Following the later ground-breaking definition formulating in 1946 with the World Health Organisation (WHO) describing health as "...a state of complete physical‚ mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". As a result‚ this portrayed health as having many more dimensions alongside the inclusion of
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