What is Health

Question 1

What does the GMC Promoting Excellence Standards for Medical Education and Training cover?

Answer 1

Communication

Partnership (respect patients decisions)

Teamwork (effectively work with colleagues)

Question 2

What does WHO stand for?

Answer 2

World health organisation

Question 3

What is the world health organisation’s description of health?

Answer 3

A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 4

What is important to be known about the word ‘health’?

Answer 4

It is subjective

Question 5

Other than health, what is another key word that is subjective?

Answer 5

Normal

Question 6

What are the 2 different kinds of normalitiy?

Answer 6

Statistical

Cultural

Question 7

What is statistic normality?

Answer 7

Normal distribution describes the shape of the population, as being in that a bell curve when you plot along for horizontal axis for that variable against the vertical axis representing the probability of observing that value

Question 8

What is normal distribution describes the shape of the population, as being in that a bell curve when you plot along for horizontal axis for that variable against the vertical axis representing the probability of observing that value?

Answer 8

Statistical normal

Question 9

What is cultural normal?

Answer 9

Normal depends on expectations and standards of society, also depending on political and economic factors

Question 10

What normal depends on expectations and standards of society, also depending on political and economic factors?

Answer 10

Cultural normal

Question 11

How can ‘normal’ change?

Answer 11

Things that are now normal for doctors previously were not

Question 12

What are the 2 ways health is defined?

Answer 12

Official or professional definitions (biomedical view of health)

Popular or lay definitions

Question 13

What is considered when talking about health from an official or professional view?

Answer 13

Absence of disease

Absence of illness

Question 14

What is considered when talking about health from a popular or lay definition view?

Answer 14

Absence of disease

Physical fitness

Functional ability

Question 15

What is an example of health beliefs changing throughout life?

Answer 15

Elderly people might not be able to bend down but are socially happy and functioning well so consider themselves to be healthy for their age

Question 16

What are examples of lay health beliefs?

Answer 16

Age

Social class

Gender

Question 17

How does age change health beliefs?

Answer 17

Older people concentrate on functional ability

Younger people speak in terms of physical strength and fitness

Question 18

How does social class impact health beliefs?

Answer 18

People in difficult economic and social circumstances regard health as functional (the ability to be productive, to cope, and take care of others)

Women of higher social class have a more multidimensional view of health

Question 19

How does gender affect health beliefs?

Answer 19

Men and women think about health differently, women including a social aspect to health

Question 20

How is health differently culturally?

Answer 20

Caucasian and Afro-Caribbean patients have different meanings of high blood pressure (Afro-Caribbean regard it as normal and are less likely to take medication)

Question 21

What is health being percieved differently dependent on?

Answer 21

Professional or not

Where you live

Circumstances you find yourself living in

How old you are

Man or woman

Question 22

Why do you need to establish what health and normality means to your patient?

Answer 22

To help them achieve their goals