Health exam revision Flashcards
Physical health and 2 characteristics
Physical health and wellbeing relates to the functioning of the body and its systems. It includes the physical capacity to perform daily activities and tasks.
Healthy body weight
- Freedom from illness, injury and disease
Mental health and 2 characteristics
Mental health and wellbeing relates to the state of one’s mind or brain and relates to the ability to think and process information. Optimal mental health and wellbeing enables an individual to positively form opinions, make decisions and use logic.
- Positive self esteem
- Low levels of stress and anxiety
Social health and 2 characteristics
Social health and wellbeing relates to the ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others and the ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations.
- Displaying effective communication skills
- Having productive relationships with others
Emotional health and 2 characteristics
Emotional health and wellbeing is defined by the ability to express feelings in a positive way and is also about the positive management and expression of emotional actions and reactions as well as the ability to display resilience.
- Effectively respond to and manage emotions
- Experience appropriate emotions in different scenarios
Spiritual health and 2 characteristics
Spiritual health and wellbeing relates to the beliefs, ideas, values and ethics that arise in the mind and conscience of human beings. Includes concepts of hope, peace and a guiding sense of meaning or value and reflection on a person’s place on the world.
- Sense of belonging
- Positive meaning and purpose in life
New WHO definition
Health is a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasising social and personal resources, as well as physical capabilities.
Textbook definition
The state of a person’s physical, social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing and is characterised by an equilibrium in which the individual feels happy, healthy capable and engaged.
To analyse
To examine a complex feature, issue or concept by breaking it down into smaller parts and showing how they relate to one another.
To evaluate
To identify key features and assess their relatively merits by discussing the strengths and weaknesses and providing a concluding judgement about the benefit or worth of what is being evaluated.
Difference between mental and emotional health
Mental health relates to the ability to think and process information, whereas emotional health relates to expressing emotions in a positive way.
What is an interrelationship? Provide an example
When 2 or more health aspects interact with each other.
Walking - physical and mental
Doing exam - mental and emotional
Self-assessed health status
The way an individual assesses their overall health.
Life expectancy
The age a person is expected to live to. The older you get, the more it increases.
Morbidity
refers to the years lost due to disease (YLD)
Mortality
Refers to the years lost after death (YLL)
Burden of disease (DALY)
Measured using a DALY. YLL+YLD equals burden of disease
Incidence and prevalence
Incidence is the number of new cases and prevalence is the number of total cases.
Name 5 sociocultural factors
Family, friends, education, income, access to health care, housing, employment.
Name 5 youth health action areas
Smoking, illicit drug use, body weight, injury, discrimination, stress and mental health, alcohol and sexual health
Name 3 food selection models
AGTHE, star-rating system, food pyramid
Fibre role and nutritional imbalance
Adds bulk to stool, absorbs water and lowers cholesterol levels.
Constipation, bowel cancer
B-vitamins and iron role and nutritional imbalance
Contribute to energy production and healthy brain functioning.
Fatigue and tiredness, anaemia
Water role and nutritional imbalance
Optimal functioning of bodily systems, hydration and cell duplication.
Decreased blood pressure, fainting
What is the REAL method?
used to validate health information. Read the url, Examine contents/author, Ask questions and Look for links.
Healthy eating: political factors
Food labelling
*Health promotion
*Food policies and laws
Healthy eating: cultural factors
*Gender
*Ethnicity
*Religion
Healthy eating: social factors
- Family
- Friends
*Social media
*Socioeconomic status
Immersive marketing
- Advertising becomes a complete experience
-Creates emotional relationship between consumer and brand
celebrity endorsement
- Develops relationship between consumer and product
- increases product desirability and brand recognition
Location-based mobile marketing
- Collect your mobile number
- Uses sophisticated tracking techniques
- Targets clients through alerts or messages.
infiltration of social media
- Regularly advertised in media feed
-Regularly tempt young people - Offer free products or prize money
product placement
- Subtly promote product by placing it in Tv appearances
- Promotes product without interrupting viewer.
collection of personal data
- Consumers are tagged with unique identifiers when going online
- They analyse your patterns of behaviour
marketing by social influencers
- They are influential in online world
- companies realise their power
