Section B: Health Indicators

Question 1

How can you assess whether someone is unwell?
List few ways

Answer 1

• Using a thermometer
• has less energy
• slow reaction time
• facial expressions
• Blood pressure machine (cuff)
• checking heart rates

Question 2

Define physiological

Answer 2

How a person and their bodily parts function normally.

Question 3

Which measurements are used by health professionals to assess a person’s health and wellbeing?

Answer 3

• Blood pressure
• Heart rate
• Oxygen levels
• Pulse rates
• BMI
• Peak flow
• Body temperature
• Blood glucose levels
• Cholesterol level

Question 4

1) Define health indicators.
2) List 3 physiological and lifestyle indicators.

Answer 4

1) A measurement or a factor that provides information about a person’s health and wellbeing.

2) Physiological: Pulse , Blood pressure , BMI
Lifestyle: Smoking , Alcohol consumption , Amount of exercise.

Question 5

List 3 reasons why health professionals do regualar monitoring.

Answer 5

• Detect health problems at an early stage
• Track improvements or deterioration (progressively worse) in health
• Make recommendations about health and treatments
• Give advice to avoid future health risks
• Support individuals to make better lifestlye choices

Question 6

List 3 illness prevention serivces.
What is the aim of each ofthe services?

Answer 6

1) The national healthy schools programme; it aims to support children and young people in developing healthy behaviours, helps to reduce health inequalities, promote social inclusion and helps to raise achievements of children and young people.

2) Health screening; aims to detect a health problem at an early stage, before the individual starts showing symptoms to be able to control and treat it more effectively.

3) Vaccinations; aims to protect the entire population from the common disease and reduce the associated mortality

Question 7

Why do health professionals measure the following:
* Peak flow
* Waist to hip ratio
* Blood glucose
* Height/weight
* Resting pulse and recovery pulse rates after exercise

Answer 7

• Peak flow:helps to know how open your airways are in the lungs as it measures how fast you can push air out of your lungs when you blow as hard and fast as you can.
• Waist to hip ratio: Helps to work out the fat distribution.
• Blood glucose: to measure if your blood sugar levels are in healthy range or not.
• Height/weight: To check whether you’re over/under weight or have a healthy weight
• Resting pulse and recovery pulse rates after exercise: helps to know how well your heart functions and helps to predict future health problems.

Question 8

List 6 postive aspects of the lifestyle.

These are less easily measured but useful indicators of health.

Answer 8

• regular exercise
• personal hygiene
• education
• use of service: dentist, optician
• enough sleep
• supportive relationships
• balanced diet
• adequate financial resources
• leisure activities

Question 9

List 6 negative aspects of the lifestyle.

How can assessment data (A.S) be collected?

Answer 9

• reluctance to seek help or access healthcare services
• stress/depression
• poverty or unemployment
• unprotected sex
• poor housing
• environmental pollution
• social isolation
• existing chronic conditions
• substance use

Through questionnaire; A.S focuses on how your needs impact your health

Question 10

Define observed indicator.

Answer 10

When a health practitioner gains information by observing.

E.g when a person is pale, sweating, limping, breathless, behaving oddly