Dimensions
Identify the 5 dimensions of health within 10 seconds
Physical, mental social, emotional, spiritual
What does dynamic mean?
Constantly changing
List two examples of optimal health and wellbeing
health body weight
free of illness and disease
high levels of resilience
low levels of stress
What is mortality?
Deaths in a population
Feeling stressed is an example of which dimension?
Mental Health and Wellbeing
A subjective concept that relates to the negative aspects of health and wellbeing and how one feels about disease
Illness
When stress levels are low, and a person feels relaxed and positive about themselves and life, one would be experiencing...
Optimal mental health and wellbeing
What two acronyms contribute to the DALY and what do they stand for?
YLL (Years of life lost to prem death) YLD (Years lost due to disability)
Identify 3 examples of physical health and wellbeing
•Well-functioning immune system
•Adequate energy levels
•Healthy body weight
•Able to complete daily physical tasks
•Adequate levels of fitness
•Absence of disease and illness
•Well-functioning body and systems
Describe how health and wellbeing can be subjective
•An older person may consider good health and wellbeing as the absence of any chronic diseases and the ability to live independently and look after themselves without help from others.
Whereas, a younger person may view good health and wellbeing as high levels of physical fitness and having a healthy body weight.
How can a sense of belonging at work (spiritual) act as resource for an individual?
E.g. they would attend work and earn an
they would interact with people and create relationships and friendships
work towards their purpose in life
Refers to the number of women dying from pregnancy-related causes; usually given per 100 000 live births.
Maternal mortality
Identify one example of social health and one example of emotional health
•Optimal social health and wellbeing
•Well-functioning network of family and friends
•Able to clearly communicate with others
•Able to manage or adapt to different social settings
•Able to develop and maintain relationships with others
•Positive contributions to social groups and the community
•Optimal emotional health and wellbeing
•Able to display resilience
•Able to recognise and understand a wide range of emotions in others
•Able to respond to and manage your own emotions appropriately
•Able to experience appropriate emotions in a range of different scenarios
Why can illness be dynamic?
It can be dynamic because an individuals experience of a disease can change quickly
E.g. a person may have broken their leg and experienced a lot of pain, but over time it heals and the pain goes away
Increased workforce productivity, increased social participation, health system savings, fewer people relying on social security, reduced stress and anxiety in the community, higher average incomes ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF HOW HEALTH AND WELLBEING CAN ACT AS A RESOURCE....
Nationally
What is the difference between incidence and prevalence?
Incidence: refers to the number (or rate) of new cases of a disease/condition in a population during a given period
Prevalence: the number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time
Describe spiritual health and wellbeing
•Spiritual health is not material in nature, but relates to ideas, beliefs, values and ethics that arise in the minds and conscience of human beings.
Provide an example of a relationship between soical and mental health
•Regularly participating in a sports team can allow you to develop meaningful and satisfying relationships with your teammates (social health and wellbeing).These relationships may act as an outlet for you to vent your frustrations about day-to-day life and relieve daily stresses and anxieties you may have (mental health and wellbeing).
Identify three ways that health and wellbeing acts as a resource globally.
-Promotes sustainability
-Promotes social development
-Reduces risk of disease transmission between countries
-Assists in promoting peace and stability
-Promotes economic development / social development
-World peace and security
-Increased productivity and ability to access resources required for decent standard of living
-Optimal global trade
Describe burden of disease
A measure of the impact of diseases and injuries, specifically it measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability. Burden of disease is measured in a unit called the DALY