Contemporary Health Issues

Question 1

What is Health?

Answer 1

• According to the World Health Organization (WHO) (1947)- “the state of complete physical mental and social well being not just the merely absence of disease and infirmity”
• WHO also added to the definition to include – people’s valve system or belief can have an impact on their overall health

Question 2

Domains of Health

Answer 2

• Physical
• Spiritual
• Emotional
• Social
• Intellectual
• Environmental

Question 3

Physical Health (Domains of Health)

Answer 3

Biological integrity of the individual:

• Absence of disease
• Ability to perform ADLs

Question 4

Emotional Health (Domains of Health)

Answer 4

• Ability to express and manage feelings and wants
• Motivate themselves
• Sensitivity to others

Question 5

Social Health (Domains of Health)

Answer 5

-Ability of people to interact with other people and social environment

Question 6

Intellectual Health (Domains of Health)

Answer 6

• Capacity for reasoning, solving problems and performing other mental functions accurately
• Ability to learn from previous mistakes

Question 7

Spiritual Health (Domains of Health)

Answer 7

• Person’s connection to self, significant others and community at large
• Belief system
• Purpose to life

Question 8

Environmental Health (Domains of Health)

Answer 8

-Area of health that focused on the interaction of humans with all aspects of their environment

Question 9

Wellness

Answer 9

Adopting patterns of behaviors that can lead to improved health and heightened life satisfaction

Question 10

Areas

Answer 10

Focuses on actions that are designed to maintain a current health state or advance a health state to an improved level

Question 11

Health Education (Areas)

Answer 11

• Profession of educating people in areas of health
• Development of individual, group, institutional, community and strategies to improve
• Knowledge, attitudes, skills and behavior

Question 12

Community Health (Areas)

Answer 12

• Activities directed toward improving the health of the public
• Activities employing resources available common to members of the community (Ex: bike lanes, Family nights)

Question 13

Public Health (Areas)

Answer 13

• Study and practices of health promotion and disease prevention at the population level
• Branch of medicine that focuses of government health (CDC- Preventing epidemics; Preventing injuries; Preventing environmental hazards)