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Health Science - Exam 1 Study Guide (PART 1)
Course: Concepts in Health Science (HESC 220 )
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University: California State University, Fullerton
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Health Science Exam 1 Review (Part 1 – Chapters 1-2)
Answer these questions, and you will be in good shape for the first exam!
Chapter 1: What is health?
What does it mean to be healthy?
What is wellness?
What are the components of the wellness continuum? 1) Premature death, 2) Terminal illness, 3)
chronic disease, 4) minor illness, 5) Physical, mental, social and spiritual health, 6) Sense of vitality, 7)
Wellness
What are the individual components of wellness?
How is each component defined?
What is Public Health? An arena in which the connections between individuals and community
become concrete, and decisions about regulating personal behaviors for the good of the community
sometimes lead to debate and controversy (from ch. 3).
What is the “Stages of Change” model? Know the steps and examples of each of the Stages of Change
model. Why is it a spiral model?
What is SMART? - Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time bound
What are SMART goals?
Make sure to know the steps of making SMART goals.
Where would you find the most reliable source for health information?
What is a health family tree?
How do you build one from scratch (we did this in lecture!)? What information does it tell you?
What is DNA? What are genes? What are chromosomes?
What is a mutation? - When a gene, chromosome, or amino acid (ATGC) is missing, extra, or
misplaced. Not all mutations are bad.
What are the pros and cons of genetic testing? Cost and liability (cons)
Chapter 2:
Make sure to understand the function of the parts of the brain we talked about: amygdala, frontal
cortex, optic nerve, corpus callosum, cerebellum, and the parts of the brain stem. P. 31