Health Insitution Flashcards
What is health?
It refers to the physical and emotional well-being, especially associated with normal functioning of the human body, absence of disease, pain (including mental pain), or injury.
What are the health domains?
- Physical Health
- Psychological Health
- Emotional Health
- Social Health
- Spiritual Health
What is physical health?
The way your body functions. This includes eating rice, getting regular exercise and being at your recommend body weight.
What is psychological health?
The ability to recognize reality and cope with demands of everyday life.
brain
What is emotional health?
Expressing your emotions in a positive and non-destructive way.
What is social health?
Quality of relationships with family, friends, teachers and classmates, and others the child is in contact with.
interpersonal
What is spiritual health?
Refers to maintaining harmonious relationship with other living things and having spiritual directions.
In the Philippines, many medical-related terms have been developed throughout this country’s history. What are some culture-specific syndromes and illnesses?
Bughat and usog
What is bughat?
- Commonly known as “Binat”.
- Happens to a person that has recently healed from sickness but then shortly gets sicks again after.
not carrying anything because you’ll get sick again(?)
What is usog?
- Usually happens to young children.
- Filipino psychology happens when an stranger greets you with an evil eye.
- Symptoms are fever and convulsions.
“buyag”
Name the traditional medicines and healing treatments
Acupuncture, herbalism, Chinese medicine, and rubs
What is acupuncture?
- Involves the insertion of very thin needles through your skin at strategic points on your body.
- Traditional Chinese medicine.
- Commonly used to treat pain.
What is herbalism?
- The practice of herbalism refers to folk and traditional medicinal practices based on the use of plants and plant extracts.
- Herbalism is also known as phytotherapy.
What is Chinese medicine?
- A system of medicine that aims to restore yin-yang balance.
- Ginseng root is the most widely sold traditional Chinese medicine.
What is western medicine?
A system in which medical doctors and other health care professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists, and therapists) treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation, or surgery.
