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AOS1 Flashcards

Health Perspectives and influences

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What are the 5 dimensions of health?

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Physical, social, mental, emotion and spiritual

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Definition of wellbeing

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An equilibrium in which the individual feels happy, healthy, capable and engaged

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Definition of Health and Wellbeing

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A person’s physical, social, emotion, mental and spiritual existence characterised by the equilibrium in which they feel happy, healthy, capable and engaged.

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What is physical health and wellbeing?

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The functioning of the body and its systems, including the body’s capacity to perform daily tasks and acitvities.

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What is mental health and wellbeing?

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The current state of wellbeing of the mind, involving the ability to think and process information.

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What is social health and wellbeing?

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The ability to form meaning and satisfying relationships with others, as well as the ability to appropriately manage and adapt to social situations.

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What is emotional health and wellbeing?

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The ability to express, control and manage feelings in a positive way and display resilience.

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What is spiritual health and wellbeing?

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The ideas beliefs, values and ethics that an individual possesses, contributing to a sense of meaning, purpose and belonging.

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What is one factor that relates to each of the 5 dimensions?

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Physical- regular exercise, strong immune system
Mental- high self-esteem, low levels of stress and anxiety.
Emotional- the appropriate expression of emotions, ability to display resilience
Social- strong support network, strong communication skills
Spiritual- having a sense of belonging in their environment, having a sense of purpose in life.

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What does dynamic mean?

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Constantly changing and evolving.

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What does subjective mean?

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Depends on a persons’ beliefs, feelings and life experiences.

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What are youth priorities for health and wellbeing?

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They focus on physical health such as fitness and weight control. Also social health and wellbeing such as having a support network of friends.

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What are later adulthood priorities?

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Focusing on physical health such as maintaining mobility and being able to do daily task. This also includes making sure to get checked for cancers and more. They also focus on social health such as emphasizing family relationships.

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What is socioeconomic status?

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Socioeconomic status (SES) is a measure of a person’s social and economic position based on income, education and occupation.

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What are the three aspects of SES

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Income- being able to afford nutritious food, housing, healthcare, transport and educational resources
Education- (health literacy) attend regular health check-ups, maintain a nutritious diet, regular exercise
Occupation- different occupation require different physical labour.

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What does health status mean?

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An individual’s or population’s overall level of health, taking into account various aspects such as life expectancy, amount of disability. levels of disease risk factors.
Collected by population surveys.

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What are health indictors?

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Standard statistics that are used to measure and compare health status.

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What is an example of a health indictor?

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life expectancy, morbidity rates, core activity limitations.

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Why do we want to measure health status?

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  • to know what is making us sick
  • to find out how well/ill the population is
  • to find out which diseases are causing the biggest problems
  • to see here the government should be spending its health budget
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How do we measure the state of health?

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  • by collecting data and statistics
  • these are usually on death, disability and diseases.
  • its hard to get information off people that are well.
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What are the 8 indictors?

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  • Self-assessed health status
  • Lie expectancy
  • Mortality
  • Morbidity
  • Burden of disease (DALY, YLL, YLD)
  • Rate of hospitalisation
  • Core activity limitation
  • Psychological distress
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What is life expectancy?

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Life expectancy is the number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age if death rates do not change.

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What is mortality?

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The number of deaths in a population in a given period.

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What is morbidity?

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Morbidity refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group.

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What are the two ways to measure morbidity?

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Incidence: the number of NEW cases of a condition in a given period (usually 12 months)
Prevalence: the total number of cases of a condition at a given time.

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What is burden of disease?

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A measure of the impact of disease and injuries. It measures the gap between cureent health status and an ideal situation.

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How is burden of disease measured?

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DALY=Years Lost due to disability (YLD) + Years of Life Lost due to premature death (YLL)

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What is DALY and what does it stand for?

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DALY stands for disability adjusted life years.
It measures the overall burden of disease and injury, expressed s the number of healthy years of life lost due to illness and/or premature death.

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What is Rate of Hospitalisation?

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Rate of which individuals enter hospital due to disease or injuries.

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What are the three core activities? With examples.

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Selfcare:
- bathing/showering
- dressing/undressing
- eating/feeding
- going to the toilet
- bladder control
Mobility:
- moving around away from home
- moving around at home
- getting in or out of bed or chair
Communication in own language:
- Understanding/being understood by strangers, friends or family
Including lip reading

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What is core activity limitation? How many levels are there?

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A survey ask weather people have difficulty or require assistance from another person or an aid.
Four levels of core activity limitation.

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What is psychological stress? And what is the test/scale called?

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Relates to the unpleasant feelings and emotions that affect an individual’s level of functioning. The scale is called K10. Kessler Psychological Distress Scale.

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What are sociocultural factors?

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The social and cultural conditions into which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These include socioeconomic status, social connections and cultural influences.

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What are the 7 factors for sociocultural factors?
And how would they affect someone’s health and wellbeing.

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  • Income
  • Family
  • Housing
  • Education
  • Peer group
  • Employment
  • Access to health information
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What is an example of a traditional medical practices from around the world?

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Tradition Chinese medicine.
TCM is based on balance, harmony and energy, treating the body as one whole entity.

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What are trends in data?

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It refers to a pattern that is evidence in data. An upwards or downwards (increasing/decreasing) (positive/negative) shift in data over time

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