Chapter 1-3

Question 1

What is health & wellbeing?

Answer 1

The state of a persons’s physical, social, emotional, mental and spiritual existence, characterised by an equilibrium in which the individual feels happy, healthy, capable and engaged.

Question 2

Physical?

Answer 2

Function of the body and its system.

Question 3

Social-

Answer 3

The ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others and the ability to manage/adapt appropriately to different social situations.

Question 4

Emotional-

Answer 4

The ability to express feelings in a positive way.

Question 5

Mental-

Answer 5

Relates to the current state of wellbeing relating to a persons mind or brain and the ability to think and process information.

Question 6

Spiritual-

Answer 6

Relates to ideas, beliefs, values and the ethics that arise in the minds and conscience of human beings.

Question 7

Interrelationships-

Answer 7

The way in which two or more things are related to each other.

Question 8

What is Health status?

Answer 8

An individual or a population’s overall health.

Question 9

What is the easiest thing to measure in health status?

Answer 9

Physical ill health is one of the easiest to measure.

Question 10

Life expectancy-

Answer 10

A interaction of how long a person can except to live if death rates don’t change.

Question 11

Mortality-

Answer 11

The measure of the proportion of a populating who die in a one-year period.

Question 12

What does YLL stand for?

Answer 12

Years of life lost

Question 13

YLL meaning-

Answer 13

Due to premature death is another way of measuring and comparing mortality.

Question 14

Morbidity-

Answer 14

Ill health in a individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group.

Question 15

Morbidity rates?

Answer 15

Incidence or prevalence

Question 16

Prevalence-

Answer 16

Number or proportion of case of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.

Question 17

Incidence-

Answer 17

Number or rate of new cases of a disease during a specified period of time.

Question 18

What does YLD stand for-

Answer 18

Years lost to disability.

Question 19

YLD measure?

Answer 19

The impact of mortality on a group or population.

Question 20

Burden of disease?

Answer 20

Measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability.

Question 21

Rates of hospitalisation-

Answer 21

The youth stage of the lifespan is characterised by relatively low levels of hospitalisations compared to other lifespan stages.

Question 22

Core activities limitation-

Answer 22

Can occur as the result of an injury, development problems and chronic illness.

Question 23

What are the three core activities?

Answer 23

Self-care, Mobility and Communication in own language

Question 24

What are the four levels to core activities-

Answer 24

Profound, severe, moderate, mild

Question 25

Profound-

Answer 25

Those who always answer yes to needing help

Question 26

Severe-

Answer 26

Those who don’t always need help

Question 27

Moderate-

Answer 27

Those who have difficulty with tasks.

Question 28

Mild-

Answer 28

Those who simply require aids to undertake the task.

Question 29

Psychological distress-

Answer 29

Unpleasant feelings and emotions that have to impact on the individual level of functioning.

Question 30

Kessler Psychological Distress Scale measures?

Answer 30

Psychological distress

Question 31

Sociocultural factors-

Answer 31

Family, Peer group, Employment, Education, Housing, Income, Access to health Information.

Question 32

Nuclear family-

Answer 32

A couple and their dependent child.

Question 33

Step family-

Answer 33

Family that is caused by a re marriage and includes children.

Question 34

Blended family-

Answer 34

A couple and a child they had together, also a child from a previous relationship.

Question 35

Good peer group can help-

Answer 35

Mental health, Emotional wellbeing, Good social relationships.

Question 36

why does housing play a significant role in health?

Answer 36

Ventilation, hygiene, design, saftey, overcrowding, sleeping conditions ect.

Question 37

Types of health Information and support services-

Answer 37

Family & friends, school Services, internet, telephone service.

Question 38

Barriers to access health Services-

Answer 38

Stigma, wanting to handle it by themselves, money

Question 39

Education can help with-

Answer 39

Opportunities to participate in regular physical activity, nutrition, health literacy.

Question 40

Employment can help with-

Answer 40

Nutritious food, more recreational facilities, safer home

Question 41

Income can help with-

Answer 41

Opportunities for young e.g. mobile phones, health care, holidays.

Question 42

What = socioeconomic status?

Answer 42

Income+occupation+education