Unit 1 AOS 1 Flashcards
Youth Health and Wellbeing
What is the definition of health?
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
What is a strength of the health definition?
The definition was significant because it recognised that health was more than just physical health.
What is a weakness of the health definition?
It does not give everyone the opportunity to be considered healthy as it is hard to achieve complete wellbeing in all dimensions.
What is the WHO 1986 health definition?
A resource for everyday life, not just the objective for living. It is a positive concept emphasising social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.
What is the definition of wellbeing?
An equilibrium in which the individual feels happy, healthy, capable and engaged.
What is the definition of health and wellbeing?
The state of a person’s physical, social, emotional, mental and spiritual existence and is characterised by an equilibrium in which the individual feels happy, healthy, capable and engaged.
What is the definition of physical health and wellbeing?
Relates to the efficient functioning of the body and its systems, and includes the physical capacity to perform daily activities tasks.
What are factors of physical health and wellbeing?
Physical fitness, healthy body weight, cholesterol levels.
What is the definition of mental health and wellbeing?
The current state of wellbeing relating to a person’s mind or brain and the ability to think and process information.
What are factors of mental health and wellbeing?
Low levels of stress and anxiety, high confidence levels, positive self esteem.
What is the definition of emotional health and wellbeing?
The ability to recognise, understand and effectively manage and express emotions as well as the ability to display resilience.
What are factors of emotional health and wellbeing?
High resilience levels, able to recognise a range of emotions and effectively manage them.
What is the definition of social health and wellbeing?
The ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others and the ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations.
What are factors of social health and wellbeing?
Effective communication, supportive and well functioning family.
What is the definition of spiritual health and wellbeing?
Relates to ideas, beliefs, values and ethics that arise in the minds and conscience of people and feeling a sense of belonging.
What are factors of spiritual health and wellbeing?
Having a sense of belonging, having a meaning and purpose in life, experiencing peace and harmony, acting according to values and beliefs.
What are the prerequisites for health?
Peace, shelter, education, food, income, social justice, equity, sustainable resources, stable ecosystem.
What does peace relate to in health?
Relates to the absence of conflict. Provides a decreased risk of premature death, serious injury and disability.
What does shelter describe in health?
A structure that provides protection from the outside environment.
What is education in the context of health?
A formal process of learning that empowers individuals and increases ability to find a job and to earn income.
What is food’s role in health?
Any nutritious substance that allows for an improved immune system, higher energy levels and functioning body systems.
What is income’s impact on health?
Money received from working that increases the ability to be able to afford health care, education and recreation.
What is social justice?
When society is just, all people have the same access to resources and opportunities.
What is equity in health?
Relates to fairness with a particular focus on disadvantaged groups to improve their quality of life.
What are sustainable resources?
Ensuring that the resources used to promote health and wellbeing in the present are available for future generations.
What is a stable ecosystem?
Occurs when balance is achieved between the environment and the species that we live in.
What is perspective in health?
A particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; point of view.
What is socioeconomic status (SES)?
A measure of a person’s (or groups) social and economic position based on income, education and occupation.
How does culture influence health beliefs?
Family decision making, understanding of stigma, superstitions, diets.
How is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ definition of health and wellbeing different from the WHO definition?
Unlike the WHO definition of health and wellbeing, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people emphasise culture in their definition of health and wellbeing.
What is health status?
An individual’s or population’s overall level of health and wellbeing, taking into account various indicators such as life expectancy, mortality and morbidity.
Why is health status useful?
Allows judgements to be made about the health and wellbeing of individuals, groups or populations and allows trends to be identified.
What are health status indicators?
Self assessed health status, life expectancy, mortality, morbidity, incidence, prevalence, burden of disease, YLL, YLD, rates of hospitalisation, core activity limitations, psychological distress.
What is self assessed health status?
A subjective measure based on an individual’s own perspective of their health and wellbeing.
What is life expectancy?
The number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age if death rates do not change.
What does mortality refer to?
Refers to death, particularly at a population level, presented per 100,000 population in a 12 month period.
What does morbidity refer to?
Refers to ill health in an individual and levels of ill health within a population.
What is incidence?
Refers to the number of new cases of a condition in a given period (12 months).
What is prevalence?
Refers to the total number of cases of a condition at a given time. Will decline if death occurs.
What is Years Lived with Disability (YLD)?
A measure of how many healthy years of life are lost due to living with disease, injury or disability.
What is Years of Life Lost (YLL)?
A measure of how many years of expected life are lost due to premature death.
What does DALY stand for?
Disability adjusted life years.
What are rates of hospitalisation?
Levels of ill health that require medical treatment.
What is core activity limitation?
When an individual has difficulty or requires assistance with self care, mobility or communication in their own language.
What are the levels of core activity limitation?
Profound, severe, moderate, mild.
What is psychological distress?
Relates to unpleasant feelings and emotions that have an impact on an individual’s level of functioning.
What are sociocultural factors?
The social and cultural conditions into which people are born, grow, live, work and age.
What factors influence sociocultural factors?
Family, peer group, education, income, health literacy.
What are health outcomes?
Concepts of health and wellbeing, its dimensions and the indicators of health status.
What are health behaviours?
Behaviours of an individual that have either negative or positive impacts upon their health.
How does family influence health?
When young people have an unsettled family environment, they may be more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviours. Can increase anxiety, may build resilience.
What are the positive and negative influences of peer groups?
Positive: physically through involvement in sport, emotionally and socially through a supportive network of friends. Negative: experimenting and risk taking causing accidents, illness and injury increase.
What is health literacy?
Relates to how people access, understand and use health information and services in ways that promote and maintain health and wellbeing.
What are barriers to youth accessing health information?
Confidentiality, location of services, inflexible opening hours, high cost, not having a Medicare card.
How can we promote health outcomes?
Formal health education programs, improvised communication, accessible information.
How does family income affect health?
Usually determines the type of neighbourhood you live in.
How does parental income relate to health?
Often directly related to the amount of money they have to spend on essentials such as food, education, transport and health care.
