What is the concept of Homeostasis? Homeostasis is the process of which the body attempts to maintain a state of stable physiological balance. The body has to have homeostasis to stay alive‚ if you take a psychoactive drug‚ for example a drug that may affect your mood swings and distorted perceptions. Your body then attempts to bring itself back into physiologic balance and this may create a rebound effect. The normal temperature for a human being is 36-37.5 degree C If your body gets too cold
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211 2.3 check the suitability of an individual’s clothing and footwear for safety and mobility. When I go into a client’s house on a morning I get out clean clothes for that day for the client to put on‚ as I get the clothes out I check that the clothes are in good condition and that the clothes are the right size for the client. I recently went to dress the client‚ I went to put some trousers on the client but the trousers were too small so I explained to the client that these weren’t suitable as
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Unit 14: physiological disorders P1: explain the nature of two physiological disorders P2: explain the signs and symptoms related to two named physiological disorders. The first physiological disorder which I’m going to interview and talk about is asthma‚ before the interview I asked him if he had time to answer and talk about how asthma had come into his life and how he discovered the physiological disorder when we was a young man. I am trying to discover the physiological disorder
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In recent years‚ there has been an increasing interest in health education. More and more people noticed the importance of having a heath body and lifestyle. However‚ not all of these people understand the authentic meaning of health. This journal will demonstrate the changes of my perspective for health and some of my viewpoints about the social model of health. My viewpoint of health has changed significantly during my first health education class. Previously‚ I thought getting more sunshine is
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in January 2000 by the Department of Health and Human Services. This program intended to tackle nationwide promotions and disease preventions in the communities in which they sever form social disparities in health. Social disparities generally specify as the difference in health status that are consistently correlated with various levels of latent social advantages and position in the social ladder (Braveman & Gruskin‚ 2003.) these social disparities in health are mirrored by ethnicity‚ sexual orientation
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Determinants of poverty INTRODUCTION Background to the study The translation of consumption into welfare units is a function of various physiological characteristics such as age and sex of recipient‚ and environmental factors ( The possession of assets is a measure of the socio-economic status of the household. According to the 2002 Uganda Population and Housing census main report‚ majority (79%) of the households owned the houses they lived in especially in rural areas with 86% compared to urban
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‘Social class is still the main determinant of voting behaviour.’ Discuss. In some ways‚ this statement is correct‚ however‚ as society is evolving this is becoming less and less apparent. The change in voting behaviour based on classes started to change between 1945 and the 1980s‚ where the class de-alignment occurred. This was the decline in the relationship between social class and voting. After World War II‚ the distinctions between the classes became less important as the country had fought
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Applications [edit]Linear independence As mentioned above‚ the determinant of a matrix (with real or complex entries‚ say) is zero if and only if the column vectors of the matrix are linearly dependent. Thus‚ determinants can be used to characterize linearly dependent vectors. For example‚ given two linearly independent vectors v1‚ v2 in R3‚ a third vector v3 lies in the plane spanned by the former two vectors exactly if the determinant of the 3 × 3 matrix consisting of the three vectors is zero. The
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STRESS AND HEALTH: Psychological‚ Behavioral‚ and Biological Determinants This article from the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health is quite reputable and covers numerous aspects dealing with stress. This cite discusses the effects of stress on the human body‚ beginning with childhood and into adulthood. Additionally‚ it elaborates on the consequences of stress that may deal with smoking‚ substance abuse‚ as well as accidents‚ sleeping problems‚ and eating disorders
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r * External Determinants of Attraction * The Power of Proximity: Unplanned Contacts * Proximity—in attraction research‚ the physical closeness between two individuals with respect to where they live‚ where they sit in a classroom‚ where they work‚ and so on * Smaller physical distances are related to an increased likelihood that two people will come into repeated contact and exposure to each other‚ feel positive affect‚ and develop mutual attraction. * External
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