Exam revision

Question 1

Health status

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An individuals or populations overall level of health, taking into account various factors such as life expectancy, amount of disability and levels of disease risk factors including, illness, disability and death.

Question 2

Self assessed health status

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provides an overall measure of a populations health based on a persons own perceptions of their health

Question 3

Health

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a complete stater of physical, social and mental wellbeing,and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 4

Wellbeing

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A complex combination of all dimensions of health, characterised by an equilibrium in which the individual feels happy, healthy, capable and engaged.

Question 5

dimensions of health

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Physical, mental social, spiritual and emotional

Question 6

Physical health and wellbeing

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is the functioning of the body and its systems

Question 7

Social health and wellbeing

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the ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others and the ability to manage or adapt to different social situations. it also includes the level of support provided by family

Question 8

Mental health and wellbeing

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the current state of wellbeing relating to the mind or brain; relates to the ability to think and process information in order to positively form opinions and make decisions.

Question 9

Emotional health and wellbeing

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Refers to feelings and moods, and the ways in which people express, understand and exercise control over them.

Question 10

Morbidity

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

Question 11

Incidence

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the number or rates of new cases of a particular condition during a specific time.

Question 12

Prevalence

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The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.

Question 13

Mortality

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the number of deaths caused by a particular disease, illness or other environmental factors

Question 14

disability

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relates to an impairment of body structure or function, a limitation in activities or a restriction in participation

Question 15

Burden of disease

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a measure of the impact of disease and injuries; specifically, it measures the gap between current health and an where everyone lives in an old age free of disease and disability. Burden of disease in measured in a unit called the DALY

Question 16

Disability adjusted life years (DALYs)

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a measure of the burden of disease; one DALY equals one year of healthy life lost due to premature death and time lived with illness,

Question 17

Disability adjusted life years (DALYs)

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a measure of the burden of disease; one DALY equals one year of healthy life lost due to premature death and time lived with illness, .

Question 18

rates of hospitalisation

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the number of patients who experience an episode of admitted patient care.

Question 19

Lifespan

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the time in which life begins at conception and ends at death

Question 20

Conception

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when the sperm fertilizes the ova

Question 21

Stages of the lifespan

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Prenatal 
Infancy 
Childhood
Adolescent 
Adulthood

Question 22

Development

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is the change, predictable and orderly a series of stages that is predictable and orderly eg walking, talking, puberty

Question 23

Growth

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refers to the measurable changes in the number and size of the body’s cell

Question 24

Self-esteem

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is how a person feels about their own abilities and self-worth

Question 25

Self-concept

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the idea individuals have of themselves; who, they are, who they want to be, what they value and what they believe others think of them

Question 26

Reflex

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is an involuntary action

Question 27

Development milestone

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is a task, undertaking or event that is expected to be achieved in order to successfully progess to a further level of development

Question 28

Quantitative

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is to measure, countor gain an idea of how much change is occurring by looking at quantities or amounts.

Question 29

Qualitative

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is to make subjective judgements or assumptions about development, describes each change that cannot be measured easily

Question 30

Physical development

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Refers to those changes that occur in an individuals body overtime, including growth. The changes that relate to people’s size and shape, and therefore body structure.

Question 31

Intellectual development

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also referred to as cognitive development; the ways in which people are about to think and reason. this type of development involves changes in how a person is able to think and reason as they grow older

Question 32

Social development

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is the increasing complexity of behaviour patterns used to relationships with other people. It it concerned with the ways in which an individuals ability to interact with those around them changes as they move through the lifespan. Social development involves learning how to communicate with different groups of people.

Question 33

Emotional development

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refers to feelings and moods, and the ways in which people express, understand and exercise control overtime. Emotions are the reaction of a person to a situation that involves feelings, Emotions can also be expressed through facial expressions and physical movements