Health And Human Flashcards
What are the 3 dimensions of health?
Social development
Mental development
Physical development
What is the definition of well being?
The state of being healthy, happy and content, usually determined through self assessment.
Define YLD
years life to disease, illness or injury
Define YLL
Years of life lost due to premature mortality
Define burden of disease
A measure of the impact of diseases and injuries, it measures the gap between current health status and ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability ( measured in DALY)
List the life span and ages
- Prenatal, conception, birth
- Infancy, birth - 2 years
- Early childhood 2-6 years
- Late childhood 6-12 years
- Youth 12-18 years
- Early adulthood 18-40 years
- Middle adulthood 40-65 years
- Late adulthood 65+ - death
Define life expectancy
An indication of how long a person can expect to live, it is a number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age if death rates do not change . M= 81 F= 84
Define health status
An individual or population overall health, taking into account aspects such as life expectancy amount of disability and levels of disease
What is a developmental milestone?
A significant skill or event occurring in a persons life eg learning to walk, moving out of home.
What does mortality refer to?
Refers to deaths in a population
What is morbidity
Refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population
Define individual human development
Series of orderly, predictable changes that occur from conception until death. Development can be physical, social emotion or intellectual
Define physical development
Refers to changes to the body and systems, both internal and external
Define social development
Increasing complexity of behaviour patterns used in relationships with other people.
Define health
A state of complete physical, mental and social well being, the absence of disease or infirmity
