Chapter 1-3 Flashcards
What is health & wellbeing?
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.
Physical?
Function of the body and its system.
Social-
The ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others and the ability to manage/adapt appropriately to different social situations.
Emotional-
The ability to express feelings in a positive way.
Mental-
Relates to the current state of wellbeing relating to a persons mind or brain and the ability to think and process information.
Spiritual-
Relates to ideas, beliefs, values and the ethics that arise in the minds and conscience of human beings.
Interrelationships-
The way in which two or more things are related to each other.
What is Health status?
An individual or a population’s overall health.
What is the easiest thing to measure in health status?
Physical ill health is one of the easiest to measure.
Life expectancy-
A interaction of how long a person can except to live if death rates don’t change.
Mortality-
The measure of the proportion of a populating who die in a one-year period.
What does YLL stand for?
Years of life lost
YLL meaning-
Due to premature death is another way of measuring and comparing mortality.
Morbidity-
Ill health in a individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group.
Morbidity rates?
Incidence or prevalence
Prevalence-
Number or proportion of case of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.
Incidence-
Number or rate of new cases of a disease during a specified period of time.
What does YLD stand for-
Years lost to disability.
YLD measure?
The impact of mortality on a group or population.
Burden of disease?
Measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability.
Rates of hospitalisation-
The youth stage of the lifespan is characterised by relatively low levels of hospitalisations compared to other lifespan stages.
Core activities limitation-
Can occur as the result of an injury, development problems and chronic illness.
What are the three core activities?
Self-care, Mobility and Communication in own language
What are the four levels to core activities-
Profound, severe, moderate, mild
Profound-
Those who always answer yes to needing help
Severe-
Those who don’t always need help
Moderate-
Those who have difficulty with tasks.
Mild-
Those who simply require aids to undertake the task.
Psychological distress-
Unpleasant feelings and emotions that have to impact on the individual level of functioning.
Kessler Psychological Distress Scale measures?
Psychological distress
Sociocultural factors-
Family, Peer group, Employment, Education, Housing, Income, Access to health Information.
Nuclear family-
A couple and their dependent child.
Step family-
Family that is caused by a re marriage and includes children.
Blended family-
A couple and a child they had together, also a child from a previous relationship.
Good peer group can help-
Mental health, Emotional wellbeing, Good social relationships.
why does housing play a significant role in health?
Ventilation, hygiene, design, saftey, overcrowding, sleeping conditions ect.
Types of health Information and support services-
Family & friends, school Services, internet, telephone service.
Barriers to access health Services-
Stigma, wanting to handle it by themselves, money
Education can help with-
Opportunities to participate in regular physical activity, nutrition, health literacy.
Employment can help with-
Nutritious food, more recreational facilities, safer home
Income can help with-
Opportunities for young e.g. mobile phones, health care, holidays.
What = socioeconomic status?
Income+occupation+education
