UNIT 1: HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Question 1

Physical Health & Wellbeing

Answer 1

Relates to the functioning of the body and its systems; it includes the physical capacity to perform daily activities or tasks

Question 2

Social Health & Wellbeing

Answer 2

Social health and wellbeing refer to an individual’s ability to engage in positive relationships and interactions with others.

Question 3

Mental Health & Wellbeing

Answer 3

Mental health refers to a person’s overall psychological and emotional state, including their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Question 4

Spiritual Health & Wellbeing

Answer 4

Spiritual health and wellbeing refers to a person’s sense of meaning, purpose, and connection beyond the physical/material world.

Question 5

Emotional Health & Wellbeing

Answer 5

Emotional health refers to a person’s ability to recognize, express, and manage their feelings and emotions in a healthy way.

Question 6

Dimensions of Health & Wellbeing

Answer 6

physical, social, emotional, mental and spiritual

Question 7

What is health

Answer 7

A complete state of complete physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social well being and not merely the absence of disease

Question 8

Prevalence

Answer 8

The number or group of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.

Question 9

Wellbeing

Answer 9

Wellbeing: a complex combination of all dimensions of health, characterised by an equilibrium in which the individual feels happy, healthy, capable and engaged.

Question 10

Incidence

Answer 10

The occurrence, rate, or frequency of a disease, crime, or other undesirable thing.

Question 11

Mortality

Answer 11

Mortality refers to death, particularly at a population level.

Question 12

Disease

Answer 12

Physical or mental disturbance involving symptoms, dysfunction or tissue damage

Question 13

Under 5 Mortality

Answer 13

The death of a child under 5 years of age per 1000 live births

Question 14

Maternal Mortality

Answer 14

Death of a mother during pregnancy, childbirth or within six weeks of delivery per 100,000 live births