Definitions Flashcards
Life Expectancy
An indication of how long a person can expect to live if the current death rates stay the same.
Health Status
The level of health being experienced by an individual or a population after taking into account factors like life expectancy, disability rates and risk of disease.
Lowest: ill health | Medium: neutral health | High: optimal health
Mortality
Rate of deaths that occurred in a population in a given period of time for a specific cause/all causes.
Trend
A trend is a general movement or pattern. ie) in graphs or statistics
YLL (years of life lost)
A way of measuring mortality. If a person dies from a specific condition, 30 years before the predicted life expectancy, they then have contributed 30 YLLs to that particular cause of death.
Morbidity
Refers to ill-health, including disease, injury and disability. It is the level of ill-health in a population. Morbidity rate refers to the rate of ill-health in a population in a given period of time.
YLDs (years lost due to disability)
Measure of the impact of morbidity on a group or population. ie) indication of he severity of the condition and how much it interferes with normal life.
Incidence
The number of new cases of a condition in a given period of time (usually 12 months). This data can be useful for identifying which conditions are increasing in diagnosis and which ones are decreasing.
Prevalence
The total number of cases of a condition at a given time.
Burden of disease
The impact of a particular disease in relation to the a out of healthy life lost due to premature illness of a person, or population.
DALYs
Disability adjusted life years: 1 DALY is equal to one year of ‘healthy’ life lost due to premature death or living with a illness.
Individual Human Development
Changes that occur and people people experience from conception to death. Often characterised by milestones that are predictable and occur in sequential order.
Physical Development
Changes that occur to he body and it’s systems.
Growth, increase in complexity, motor skills develop, decline in body systems.
Social Development
Reverts to the social skills and behaviours individuals learn from a young age.
CRBSV
Communication skills, relationship skills, behaviours, social roles, values and beliefs.
Emotional Development
Refers to the emotions the development of the full range of emotions and learning ways to deal and express them emotionally.
SAME
Self concept, awareness of emotions, management of emotions, expression of emotions.
Intellectual Development
Both the processes that occur within the brain and the increasing complexity of the brain.
LAMP KTC
Language, attention, memory, problem solving, knowledge, thought patterns, creativity and imagination.
Health (WHO 1986)
A resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasising social and personal resources as well as physical capacities.
Physical Health
Refers to the overall wellbeing of the body and it’s systems.
Social Heath
Refers to the quality of interacting with others.
Mental Health
The wellbeing of an individual in which they can realise their own capabilities, able to deal with normal stresses of life, work productively and able to give back to community.
Characteristics of Physical Health
Body weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, diet, energy, functioning of body systems, fitness, illness.
BBCDEFFI
Characteristics of social health
Friendship networks, social skills, relationships with family
FRS
Characteristics of mental health:
Confidence, stress levels, self esteem, thought patterns.
Puberty
Biological changes that occur in youth that allows the individual to start sexual reproduction.
Optimal Health:
Refers to the highest level of health that can be obtained depending on the individual.
Motor skills:
Refers to the control of the muscles in the body.
Fine vs Gross
