Health Problems and Young Workers

Question 1

What is health?

Answer 1

-Health is about functioning, functional capacity or capability

Question 2

What is disability in a legal sense?

Answer 2

• A disabled person is one with a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial or long term effect on their ability to carry out normal day to day activities.
• Even if a condition is controlled by drugs or aids (worth exception of eyesight and spectacles).

Question 3

What is impairment?

Answer 3

-Is due to an injury, illness or congenital condition that causes or is likely to cause a loss or difference in physiological or psycological function.

Question 4

What is special about the concept of disability?

Answer 4

-Is not just a health thing, it is a complex of phenomenon, reflecting the link between features of a person’s body and society in which they live.

Question 5

What is the biopshycosocial model of disability?

Answer 5

-Disability
Affected by attitudes and beliefs
Physcological distress affects this
Social reinforces effect this

Question 6

What does substantial effect mean?

Answer 6

-Generally means more than 12 months or terminal

Question 7

What may cause disability in young and give some examples of conditions?

Answer 7

• Congenital = downs syndrome
• Developmental = spina bifida, club foot
• Birth injury = cerebral palsy
• Infections = meningitis, polio, septic arthritis
• Metabolic = rickets
• Prenatal
• Premature
• Birth injury
• Violence
• Disease

Question 8

What are barriers to kids with disability?

Answer 8

• Physical disability
• Locomotor disability
• Cosmetic disability
• Sensory disability
• Cognititve impairment

Question 9

What are barriers to people with disability?

Answer 9

• Impacts on: economic, social, health, quality of life

- Impacts on ability to work (paid or not) and can take the purpose away from someones life

Question 10

What adjustments can be made for patients at work and in their living?

Answer 10

• Need to be practical and reasonable for employers etc.
• Adjustments to: premises, work station, equipment, support, changes in duty, changing hours, may involve moving from higher grade job to lower grade if that is all that is within their competence

Question 11

What is the significance of worklessness?

Answer 11

• Is the single most important cause of health inequality, social exclusion, deprivation and mortality.
• This will also have accumulative effect on next generation of these families.
• Children of workless households are more likely to experience worklessness themselves when adult.

Question 12

What is importance of work?

Answer 12

• Vital to wellbeing

- Increases mortality

Question 13

Along with biological factors what is important in medicine?

Answer 13

-Phycosocial factors

Question 14

What is ultimately the role of medicine?

Answer 14

-To improve functioning and quality of life.