PDHPE+Dictionary+of+terms

**Blood Borne Viruses** - Used to refer to Hepatitis B and C.
====**Critical Approach** - This question-based approach to the study of PDHPE involves proposing a range of solutions to the problems being studied. It may involve consideration of alternatives to practices that have been accepted or in place for extended periods of time. ==== ====**Determinants of Health** - The range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors that determine the health status of individuals and populations. ====

**Dispossession** - The removal of possessions, particularly land.
====**Enabling** - Action in partnership with individuals and groups, providing resources and support to empower them to promote and protect their health. ====

[[image:POCdiagram.gif width="350" height="342" align="right" caption="Health"]]
====**EPO** - The drug epoetin is a synthetic version of human erythropoieten (EPO). The drug stimulates the bone marrow to produce red blood cells. It is considered as blood doping and its use is banned in sports. ==== ====**Equity** - Equity means that resources are allocated in accordance with the needs of individuals and populations with the desired goal of equality of outcomes. ==== ====**FITT Principle** - A framework for developing fitness programs that emphasize the variables Frequency, Intensity, Type of exercise and Time or duration of exercise. ====

**Health** - A state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
====**Health Literacy** - The ability to understand and interpret health information and services and utilise this information in ways that promote and maintain good health. ====

**Health Status** - The health of an individual or population measured against an identifiable standard.
====**Intersectoral Collaboration** - Different sectors of society work together in a coordinated manner in order to tackle a particular issue or achieve an agreed outcome. The combined effort is more effective and the outcome more sustainable than the health sector working in isolation. ==== ====**Jakarta Declaration** - The declaration resulted from the World Health Organization 4th International Conference on Health Promotion. The declaration raises new health challenges, affirms the Ottawa Charter action areas and establishes the following priorities: ====
 * ====promote social responsibility for health ====
 * ====increase investments for health development ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">consolidate and expand partnerships for health ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">increase community capacity and empower the individual ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">secure an infrastructure for health promotion. ====

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Mediation** - The process of bringing different interests and parties together to a point of accepting solutions that promote health.
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**New Public Health** - A model of health recognising the dual role of lifestyle and living conditions as determinants of health status. It involves establishing programs, policies and services that create environments that support health. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Ottawa Charter** - The charter represents the views of the World Health Organisation’s First International Conference on Health Promotion. It outlines prerequisites of health and the importance of enabling, mediating and advocating for health. It outlines 5 essential actions for health promotion: ==== > ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ==== ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**PNF** - Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Functioning is a form of flexibility training. It involves a phase of pushing away from the direction of stretch against resistance. This is followed by a period of relaxation ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">build healthy public policy ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">create supportive environments ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">strengthen community action ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">develop personal skills ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">reorient health services. ====

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">with gentle reversing of the resistance to push along the line of stretch increasing the stretch beyond its normal range.
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Reorienting Health Services** - Moving the focus of the health sector towards health promotion, prevention and supporting the wellbeing of the whole person to complement traditional roles of diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. The health sector is encouraged to also adopt a key role in coordinating other sectors to work for health. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Resilience** - The process and capacity that allows individuals to successfully adapt to challenges in their lives. Resilience is related to the development of personal life skills, such as social problem-solving, assertiveness, negotiation, social support accessing skills and a sense of connectedness. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Settings** - Places or social contexts at which populations engage in daily life. These settings present as potential sites for health-promotion activity that targets the relevant populations. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Social Action** - Deliberate activity that is aimed at enhancing the well being of others and oneself. Based on the theory that the nature of society is a product of individuals acting collectively. In the school setting this may include, for example, students participating in decision-making, developing peer support networks, or promoting drug free lifestyles. ====

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:1315129974_47.jpg width="334" height="300" align="right" caption="Social Justice"]]
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Social Construct** - A concept that has meaning and shared understandings based on people’s ways of seeing, interpreting, interrelating and interacting. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Social Justice** - A value that favors measures that aim at decreasing or eliminating inequity; promoting inclusiveness of diversity; and establishing environments that are supportive of all people. ====

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Sociocultural** - Related to social and cultural factors that impact on health and physical activity issues.
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Strategic Non-intervention** - The deliberate decision to monitor rather than intervene when people are faced with a challenge or problem. This allows for the development of resourcefulness, problem-solving skills and personal growth. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Supportive Environments** - The places people live, work and play that protect people from threats to health and that increase their ability to make health-promoting choices. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Trait and State Anxiety** - One’s normal disposition to be anxious generally (trait) vs one’s level of anxiety in a particular situation (state) ====

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