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Psychology, Stress, Lifestyle, and Health, What Is Stress

WEBThe scientific study of how stress and emotional factors impact health and well-being is called health psychology, a field devoted to studying the general impact of psychological factors on health. The body’s primary physiological response during stress, the fight-or-flight response, was first identified in the early 20th century by Walter

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OER Nursing Essentials OER Commons

WEBWelcome. The OER Nursing Essentials hub features resources developed as part of the ONE Project, a collaboration between the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and OpenStax at Rice University. Use this hub to access nursing textbooks, ONE Summit recordings and materials, and a collaborative group space for community …

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Psychology, Stress, Lifestyle, and Health, The Pursuit of Happiness

WEBSome psychologists have suggested that happiness consists of three distinct elements: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life, as shown in Figure (Seligman, 2002; Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005). The pleasant life is realized through the attainment of day-to-day pleasures that add fun, joy, and excitement to our lives

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OER Nursing Essentials (ONE) Project Group Resources OERTX

WEBMENTAL HEALTH IS A VERB is an Open Education Resource written by Jake Bush, Ph.D., RN, CNE and Jill Van Der Like, DNP, MSN, RNC through University of West Florida which addresses mental health nursing care. The book reviews the foundations of mental health, psychopharmacology, and the most common mental health diagnoses. Material …

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An Introduction to the Human Body

WEBDepending on the environmental temperature and our state of health, we may be able to survive for only a few days without water. The body’s functional chemicals are dissolved and transported in water, and the chemical reactions of life take place in water. Moreover, water is the largest component of cells, blood, and the fluid between cells

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Psychology, Stress, Lifestyle, and Health, Stress and Illness

WEBFrom a health standpoint, it clearly does not pay to be an angry young person. After reviewing and statistically summarizing 35 studies from 1983 to 2006, Chida and Steptoe (2009) concluded that the bulk of the evidence suggests that anger and hostility constitute serious long-term risk factors for adverse cardiovascular outcomes among both

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The Cardiovascular System: Blood Vessels and Circulation

WEBRegular exercise promotes cardiovascular health in a variety of ways. Because an athlete’s heart is larger than a nonathlete’s, stroke volume increases, so the athletic heart can deliver the same amount of blood as the nonathletic heart but with a lower heart rate. This increased efficiency allows the athlete to exercise for longer periods

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Psychology, Stress, Lifestyle, and Health, What Is Stress

WEBHealth psychology emerged as a discipline in the 1970s, a time during which there was increasing awareness of the role behavioral and lifestyle factors play in the development of illnesses and diseases (Straub, 2007). In addition to studying the connection between stress and illness, health psychologists investigate issues such as why people

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Introduction to Sociology 2e, Health and Medicine, The Social

WEBThe Social Construction of Health. If sociology is the systematic study of human behavior in society, medical sociology is the systematic study of how humans manage issues of health and illness, disease and disorders, and healthcare for both the sick and the healthy. Medical sociologists study the physical, mental, and social components of

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Reforms to Human Health

WEBTEMPERANCE. According to many antebellum reformers, intemperance (drunkenness) stood as the most troubling problem in the United States, one that eroded morality, Christianity, and played a starring role in corrupting American democracy. Americans consumed huge quantities of liquor in the early 1800s, including gin, whiskey, rum, and …

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Open Educational Resources Nursing Essentials (ONE) Project

WEBOpen educational resources can be reorganized, modularized, and integrated into learning management systems and other instructional tools. For schools of nursing, which may serve students in a variety of programs, OER can be particularly powerful. The presentation below from the 2023 Open Education Conference provides insight and updates on the

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Application of the Population Focused Nursing Process OERTX

WEBIn community health nursing, it is imperative that the focus is on the population. The process is similar to the nursing process taught in other nursing courses. The nurse must identify a partner in the community who has contact with members of the population you wish to serve. This relationship between the community health nurse and the

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Anatomy and Physiology OERTX

WEBAnatomy and Physiology is a dynamic textbook for the two-semester human anatomy and physiology course for life science and allied health majors. The book is organized by body system and covers standard scope and sequence requirements. Its lucid text, strategically constructed art, career features, and links to external learning tools address the critical …

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Who Are the Elderly

WEBIn addition to genetic differences, health habits, hair dyes, Botox, and the like make traditional signs of aging increasingly unreliable. (Photo courtesy of the Sean and Lauren Spectacular/flickr) Since its creation in 1790, the U.S. Census Bureau has been tracking age in the population. Age is an important factor to analyze with accompanying

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Introduction to Sociology 2e, Health and Medicine, Theoretical

WEBAlongside the health disparities created by class inequalities, there are a number of health disparities created by racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism. When health is a commodity, the poor are more likely to experience illness caused by poor diet, to live and work in unhealthy environments, and are less likely to challenge the system.

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Chapter: Happiness: The Science of Subjective Well-Being (NOBA)

WEBUniversity of Utah, University of Virginia. Subjective well-being (SWB) is the scientific term for happiness and life satisfaction—thinking and feeling that your life is going well, not badly. Scientists rely primarily on self-report surveys to assess the happiness of individuals, but they have validated these scales with other types of measures.

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Chapter: Epigenetics in Psychology (NOBA) OERTX

WEBBy Ian Weaver, Dalhousie University. Early life experiences exert a profound and long-lasting influence on physical and mental health throughout life. The efforts to identify the primary causes of this have significantly benefited from studies of the epigenome—a dynamic layer of information associated with DNA that differs between individuals and …

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TECA 1318 OER TEXT OERTX

WEBSafety, Health, and Nutrition OER Textbook in Word revised Download. TECA 1318 OER TEXT. Overview. This OER textbook has been modified with some Texas specific information. Wellness of the Young Child. Textook for …

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State Government Spending in Texas

WEBIn Figure 13.2, above, note that public education is the state’s single largest spending category, followed closely by health and human services. While most of the health care portion of the budget is paid with federal funds, nearly every public education dollar must be raised locally through state taxes. Public School Finance with Emily Sass

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How Well GDP Measures the Well-Being of Society

WEBLife expectancy and health have risen dramatically, and so has the average level of education. Since 1970, the air and water in the United States have generally been getting cleaner. Companies have developed new technologies for entertainment, travel, information, and health. A much wider variety of basic products like food and clothing is

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Issues in Texas State Financing

WEBHarris County had to resolve more than 388,000 property tax protests in 2017, removing more than $5.8 billion from the property tax rolls. Property tax value reflects the value of an often speculative investment more than the taxpayer’s ability to pay. Meanwhile, Texas voters approved a state constitutional amendment in November, 2019, to

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Making Public Policy in Texas

WEBIn recent years, the Texas official policy agenda has included such items as educational finance, property tax reform, medical malpractice reform, welfare reform, and corrections policy reform. 3. Policy Adoption. The third stage in the policymaking process is policy adoption. Once a proposed policy has been added to the agenda, policy adoption

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