Unit 3 AOS1 - Understanding Health and Wellbeing

Question 1

Define Health and Wellbeing.

Answer 1

The state of a person’s physical, social, mental, emotional and spiritual existence.

Question 2

WHO Definition of Health is…

Answer 2

A state of complete physical, social and mental wellbeing, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Question 3

5 Dimensions of Health and Wellbeing.

Answer 3

Physical, Social, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual

Question 4

Define Physical Health and Wellbeing.

Answer 4

The functioning of the body and it’s systems

Question 5

Define Social Health and Wellbeing.

Answer 5

The ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others and the ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations.

Question 6

Define Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Answer 6

The current state of wellbeing relating to a person’s mind or brain and the ability to think and process information.

Question 7

Define Emotional Health and Wellbeing.

Answer 7

The ability to express emotions and feelings in a positive way.

Question 8

Define Spiritual Health and Wellbeing.

Answer 8

The ideas, beliefs, values and ethics that arise in minds and conscience of human beings.

Question 9

Explain Health and Wellbeing as a Dynamic Concept.

Answer 9

Health and Wellbeing is dynamic as it is constantly changing.

Question 10

Explain Health and Wellbeing as a Subjective Concept.

Answer 10

Health and Wellbeing is subjective as it is influenced by or based on personal beliefs, feelings or opinions.

Question 11

Explain Optimal Health and Wellbeing as a Resource Individually.

Answer 11

Answers may include:

• Children can feel well enough to attend school where they receive an education and further their literacy skills.
• Adults can feel well enough to go to work and earn a stable income.
• People can do the things they enjoy (e.g. playing sport)

Question 12

Explain Optimal Health and Wellbeing as a Resource Nationally.

Answer 12

Answers may include:

• The country can grow economically.
• Increase in income for the country (GNI) allows for the country to compete with others.
• Governments can use the income to develop better health care systems to further improve health and enable universal health care.
• Health care models can reorient their focus from the biomedical approach to the social approach.

Question 13

Explain Optimal Health and Wellbeing as a Resource Globally.

Answer 13

Answers may include:

• Governments in individuals countries can use the increased income to develop health systems in their own countries.
• Morbidity and mortality rates reduced, allowing countries to work together to combat broader issues such as climate change.
• With more countries moving into the high-income category, these nations can work together to help eradicate poverty in the many low-income countries and achieve the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Question 14

What are the Prerequisites for Health as Determined by the WHO?

Answer 14

Peace, Shelter, Education, Food, Income, Stable Ecosystem, Sustainable Resources, Social Justice and Equity.

Question 15

Define Self-Assessed Health Status.

Answer 15

A measure based on a person’s own opinion about how they feel about their health and wellbeing, their state of mind and their life in general.

Question 16

Define Life Expectancy.

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What is HALE? Define it.

Answer 17

Health Adjusted Life Expectancy. An estimate of the number of healthy years that a person born in a particular year can expect to live based on current trends in deaths and disease patterns.

Question 18

Define Morbidity.

Answer 18

The level of ill health in an individual and levels of ill health in a population or group.

Question 19

Define Mortality.

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What are the 3 Main Types of Mortality?

Answer 20

Maternal, Infant and Under 5

Question 21

Define Burden of Disease.

Answer 21

A measure of the impact of diseases and injuries. Measures the gap between current health status and ideal health status.

Question 22

What is DALY.

Answer 22

Disability Adjusted Life Years.

Question 23

Define DALY.

Answer 23

A measure of Burden of Disease, One DALY is one year of life lost due to premature death.

Question 24

What is YLL.

Answer 24

Years of Life Lost.

Question 25

Define YLL.

Answer 25

Healthy Years of Life Lost due to premature death. This is the fatal component of DALY.

Question 26

Define YLD.

Answer 26

Years Lost due Disability. This is the non-fatal component of DALY.

Question 27

Define Incidence.

Answer 27

The number of new cases of a particular condition during a specific time.

Question 28

Define Prevalence.

Answer 28

The number or proportion of total cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time (active cases).

Question 29

What are the 4 Main Population Groups

Answer 29

Males and Females, Indigenous and Non-Indigenous, High and Low Socioeconomic Status, Those Living Within and Outside Australia’s Major Cities.

Question 30

What Factors are the Variations in Health of These Groups Based On?

Answer 30

Biological, Sociocultural and Environmental.

Question 31

Define the Biological Factor of Heath.

Answer 31

Factors relating to the body and the functioning of the body systems (e.g. body weight, blood pressure, blood cholesterol, glucose regulation, genetics, birth weight)

Question 32

Define the Sociocultural Factor of Health.

Answer 32

Aspects of society and the social situation in which people live that impact on health (e.g. socioeconomic status (SES), employment, social exclusion, stress, food security, early life experiences, access to health care)

Question 33

Define the Environmental Factor of Health.

Answer 33

An individual’s physical surroundings that impact on health (e.g. housing, work environment, urban design and infrastructure, air quality, climate and climate change)