U3 AOS 1 Glossary Flashcards
Health
State of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Optimal Health and Wellbeing
Highest level of health and wellbeing an individual can realistically attain at any particular time, taking into account genetics and the different environments in which people live.
Wellbeing
Complex combination of all dimensions of health, characterised by an equilibrium in which the individual feels happy, healthy, capable and engaged.
illness
the experience of feeling unwell or being in poor health
dynamic
constantly changing based on the interactions with the environment. change in continuum of HWB can be rapid and intense. health usually change slowly: gradual change in state.
subjective
influenced or based on a person’s feelings, opinions and experiences. this means that the concepts of HWB mean different things to different people and it may be influences by past experiences, values, culture, etc.
Physical HWB
Relates to the state and functioning of the body and its systems; it includes the physical capacity to perform daily activities or tasks
Mental HWB
The current state of wellbeing relating to a person’s mind or brain and the ability to think and process information. It includes thought patterns, self-esteem and levels of stress and anxiety.
Social HWB
Relates to the state and quality of the interactions and relationships that an individual has with other people, it includes the ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations.
Emotional HWB
Relate to the ability to epress feelings in an appropriate way. It’s about the positive managment and expression of emotional actions and reactions, as well as the ability to display resilience. it is the degree to which an individual feels emotionally secure and relaxed in everyday life.
Spiritual HWB
Relates to ideas, beliefs, values and ethics that arise in the minds and conscience of human beings. it includes the concepts of hope, peace, a guiding sense of meaning or value, and reflection on your place in the world.
Health Status
An individual’s or a population’s overall health, taking into account various aspects such as life expectancy, amount of dsability and levels of disease risk factors
Self-Assessed Health Status
An overall measure of a population’s health based on a person’s own perceptions of their health.
Life Expectancy
An indication of how long a person can expect to live; it is the number of yeats of life remaining to a person at a particular age if death rates don’t change.
Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE)
A measure of birden of disease, based of life expectancy at birth, but incuding an adjustment for time spent in poor health. It is the number of years in full health that a person can expect to live based on current rates of ill-health and mortality.
Mortality
The number of deaths caused by a particular disease, illness or other environmental factor.
Morbitity
The ill-health in an individual and levels of ill-health in a population group
Burden of Disease
A measure of the impact of diseases and injuries. Specifically, it measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone life to an old age free of disease and disability. Burden of disease is measured in DALYs.
Incidence
The number or rate of new cases of a particular condition during a specific time.
Prevalence
The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.
Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY)
A measure of burden of disease; one DALY equal one year of healthy life lost due to prematre death and time lived with illness, disease or injury.
Years Life Lost (YLL)
The fatal burden of disease of a population, defined as the years of life lost due to death.
Year of Life Lost due to Disability (YLD)
The non-fatal component of the disease burden; a measurement of the healthy years lost due to disease or injuries.
Maternal Mortality
Refers to the number of deaths of women due to pregnancy, childbirth or during the six weeks after the end of pregnancy
Maternal Mortality Rate
the number of deaths amoung women due to pregnancy, childbirth or during the six weeks after birth per 1000 or 100,000 live births.
Infant mortality
Refers to the number of deaths among children under the age of one.
Infant Mortality Rate
The number of deathsof children under the age of one per 1000 or 100,000 live births.
Under-5 Mortality
Refers to the number of deaths among children under 5 years of age.
Under-5 Mortality Rate
The number of deaths among children under five years of age per 1000 or 100,000 live births.
