Week 2 Flashcards
What is health?
WHO: A state of complete physical, emotional and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
What is health status and how do you measure it?
Level of health of a person. Objective measures (health statistics, epidemiology, life expectancy and health inequalities). Subjective measures (Health perceptions).
Identify the models of health and wellbeing
The Biopsychosocial model, the Ecological model and Aboriginal health and wellbeing.
Identify the six ways to explain health
Health is the absence of disease within an individual. Health as a dynamic degree of functional capacity and wellness along a continuum. Health as a population concept. Health as a holistic concept. Health is a subjective experience. Health is related to the ecosystem.
Explain the biopsychosocial model
Recognises the connection between health, experience of illness and physical and social environment. Social and cultural factors affecting families and individuals.
Explain the ecological model
Everything is connected to everything else. More holistic view. High levels of subjective wellbeing.
Explain the factors important to aboriginal health and wellbeing
Holistic. Concern for country. Connection to land, ancestry, relationships with family and friends, connection to community. The victorian model which is a tree diagram with western/downward forces.
Explain primary health care in relation to social justice
Aims to address inequalities in health. Awareness of equity issues. Set of principles that guid HP’s to create socially just, equitable conditions for good health.
What are human rights? in relation to health?
A human rights based approach provides strategies to address and rectify inequalities, often at the heart of inequitable health outcomes.
What’s the difference between equity and inequality?
Equality: Promotes justice and fairness by giving everyone the same thing, but only works if everyone starts from the same place.
Equity: Making sure people get access to the same opportunities. Process is used to achieve health equality.
List the six cultural differences explained in Hofstedes Cultural Paradigm
Indulgence vs. restraint. Uncertainty avoidance. Individualistic vs. collectivist. Masculinity/femininity. Long term orientation. Power distance (degree of inequality)
