Understanding Health, Disease, and Human Needs

Understanding Health and Disease

Defining Health

According to Virginia Henderson: Health is defined as the individual’s ability to function independently in relation to the fourteen basic needs, similar to Maslow’s hierarchy.

According to Dorothy Pray: Health is a concept inseparable from physical, psychological, interpersonal, and social factors.

According to Peplau: Health consists of interpersonal and psychological conditions that interact. It is supported through interpersonal processes.

According

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Sport in Society: Participation, Trends, and Impact

Sport: A Social Phenomenon

Sport is a social phenomenon. Everybody plays sports; it’s fashionable, and we can see it in the media, in advertisements, and so on. Sport encompasses various aspects:

  • Driving situation: There are teammates and opponents who try to cooperate or make our actions more difficult.
  • Game: Free participation to have fun.
  • Competition: A desire for self-improvement.
  • Rules: They must exist to define the characteristics of the activity.
  • Institutionalization: An institution must state
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Badminton: History, Rules, and Equipment Essentials

Badminton: A Comprehensive Overview

Badminton’s characteristics allow it to be a competitive sport or a fun way to maintain fitness. Practicing badminton, just as recreation, is enormously appealing. Unlike what happens in other sports, it does not require great technical knowledge to get started. Learning is very easy and fast. Badminton can be practiced at any age. It is, therefore, an activity suitable for the physical maintenance of any person, especially those who want to combat sedentary lifestyles,

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Water Rescue Technician: Safety and First Aid

Definition of a Water Rescue Technician

A water rescue technician is a person able to make saves in the aquatic environment and practice first aid in all types of terrain.

General Principles of Water Rescue

Prevention

Conduct an education program that provides data, simple techniques, and aquatic rescue practices, especially on what not to do. The best aquatic rescue technician develops sufficient prevention to make intervention unnecessary. Here are some tips that may be of great utility and that can

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Physical Fitness and Sports: Key Concepts and Training

**Physical Qualities**

The physical qualities are basic factors that determine our physical condition, i.e. the physical state where we are at all times.

The *QFB* are:

  • Resistance
  • Force
  • Speed
  • Flexibility

**Evolution of QFB According to Age and Sex**

*Resistance, Strength, and Speed:*

  • Evolutionary qualities (better with age).
  • Small decrease at puberty.
  • Decrease more or less after 30 years (before the speed).
  • Its capacity is lost before if a person is not trained.
  • Boys have higher levels because they have more
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Physical Education Session Planning and Activities

Physicochemical Organization of Session Contents

The physicochemical organization of the contents implies that a session must maintain an internal logic among its contents.

  • The session finds all its meaning within the didactic unit. Changing the first session for the last within the didactic unit would break all the organization and would lead to not achieving the objectives of the didactic unit.
  • The session must equally respect an internal structure that gives logic to itself. In the same way, it
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