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  2. Exercise physiology - Wikipedia

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    The available oxygen and energy supply, and disturbances of muscle ion homeostasis are the main factors determining exercise performance, at least during brief very intense exercise. Each muscle contraction involves an action potential that activates voltage sensors, and so releases Ca 2+ ions from the muscle fibre 's sarcoplasmic reticulum .

  3. Health psychology - Wikipedia

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    Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. [1] The discipline is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly.

  4. Social influences on fitness behavior - Wikipedia

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    Social influences on fitness behavior are the effect that social influences have on whether people start and maintain physical activities. Physical fitness is maintained by a range of physical activities. Physical activity is defined by the World Health Organization as "any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy ...

  5. Social determinants of health - Wikipedia

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    They are the health promoting factors found in one's living and working conditions (such as the distribution of income, wealth, influence, and power), rather than individual risk factors (such as behavioral risk factors or genetics) that influence the risk or vulnerability for a disease or injury. The distribution of social determinants is ...

  6. Benefits of physical activity - Wikipedia

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    Physical activity refers to any body movement that burns calories. “Exercise,” a subcategory of physical activity, refers to planned, structured, and repetitive activities aimed at improving physical fitness and health. [1] Insufficient physical activity is the most common health issue in the world.

  7. Health assessment - Wikipedia

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    Health assessment has been separated by authors from physical assessment to include the focus on health occurring on a continuum as a fundamental teaching. [8] In the healthcare industry it is understood health occurs on a continuum, so the term used is assessment but may be preference by the speciality's focus such as nursing, physical therapy, etc.

  8. Preparticipation physical evaluation - Wikipedia

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    In sports medicine, a preparticipation physical evaluation (PPE) is a physical examination of an athlete. [1] PPEs screen for a variety of conditions, including athletic heart syndrome [ 2 ] and risk of sudden cardiac death .

  9. Functional capacity evaluation - Wikipedia

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    A functional capacity evaluation (FCE) is a set of tests, practices and observations that are combined to determine the ability of the evaluated person to function in a variety of circumstances, most often employment, in an objective manner. Physicians change diagnoses based on FCEs. [1]