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Question 1

mortality definition

Answer 1

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

Question 2

morbidity

Answer 2

Refers to I’ll-health in an individual and the levels of ill-health in a population or group

Question 3

Life expectancy definition

Answer 3

An indication of how long a person can expect to live. It is the number of years remaining to a person at a particular age, if death rates do not change.

Question 4

Health definition

Answer 4

A complete state of physics, social and mental wellbeing. Not merely the absence of disease.

Question 5

5 stages in the lifespan

Answer 5

• prenatal
• infancy
• childhood
• youth
• adulthood

Question 6

prenatal age range

Answer 6

conception - birth

Question 7

Infancy age range

Answer 7

Birth- 2 years

Question 8

Childhood age range

Answer 8

3-12 years

Question 9

youth age range

Answer 9

13-17 years

Question 10

Adulthood age range

Answer 10

18 onwards

Question 11

5 dimensions of health

Answer 11

• social
• physical
• emotional
• mental
• spiritual

Question 12

Social health definition

Answer 12

• form meaning and satisfying relationships with others

- ability to adapt appropriately to social situations

Question 13

Emotional health definition

Answer 13

• express feelings positively

- degree to which you feel emotionally secure in everyday life

Question 14

Physical health definition

Answer 14

How efficiently and/or effectively the body and its systems are able to function. It includes the physical capacity to perform daily activities or tasks

Question 15

mental health definition

Answer 15

• current state of wellbeing relating to mind

- ability to think and process informations to positively form opinions and make decisions

Question 16

Spiritual health definition

Answer 16

• relates to ideas, beliefs, values and ethics that arise in the minds of human beings
• concepts of hope, peace and sense of meaning or value in the world

Question 17

6 socio-cultural determinants on health

Answer 17

• family
• peers
• gender
• culture
• employment
• education

Question 18

Strengths and weaknesses of health definition

Answer 18

strengths -
The addition of social and mental wellbeing not just physical

Weaknesses -
An individual with a disability can still be healthy

Question 19

Positive influences on social health

Answer 19

• being accepted by others

- interacting well within different groups including family.

Question 20

Negative influences on social health

Answer 20

• being excluded

Question 21

Positive influences on emotional health

Answer 21

• being surrounded by people who make you comfortable with your emotions

Question 22

Negative influences on emotional health

Answer 22

• being around people who make you uncomfortable