Health & Wellbeing
What are the five dimensions of Health and Wellbeing?
Physical, social, mental, emotional and spiritual health and wellbeing
List three health status indicators.
Self-Assessed Health Status
Life Expectancy
Mortality
Morbidity
Burden of Disease
Rates of Hospitalisation
Core Activity Limitation
Psychological Distress
What are sociocultural factors?
Social and cultural conditions into which people are born, grow, live, work and age.
What is binge drinking?
Consuming many drinks of alcohol in a short period of time with the aim of getting/being drunk.
What is the definition of social health and wellbeing? Give an example.
The ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others and the ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations.
Examples include: effective communication with others, supportive and well-functioning family, productive relationships with other people, supportive network of friends, ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations.
DALY is a measurement of which indicator?
Burden of Disease
What are three resources needed for health that are likely to be provided by family?
Food
Shelter
Clothing
Emotional Support
Educational Opportunities
Paying for healthcare
What is a government/non-government program relating to anxiety/depression in youth?
HeadSpace, Youth Beyond Blue, Youth Central, Kids Helpline
What does it mean for health and wellbeing to be dynamic?
Health and wellbeing is constantly changing.
How do we calculate DALY?
YLL + YLD = DALY
What three factors make up socioeconomic status?
Education, income, employment (occupation)
What is the health and wellbeing perspective of early primary school aged children (prep to grade 4)?
Growing and being safe.
What is the difference between mortality and morbidity?
Mortality refers to the number of deaths in a population in a given period.
Morbidity refers to ill health in an individual and levels of ill health within a population often expressed through incidence and prevalence.
What are the three core activities?
Self-care
Mobility
Communication in own language
What is the health perspective of LOW socioeconomic status (SES) groups compared to HIGH SES groups?
Low SES: Health is not their priority. Shelter, food, education for their children and employment are the main priorities.
High SES: Health is their priority. More likely to spend money on private health insurance, the dentist, sporting clubs and gym memberships.
What is the difference between incidence and prevalence?
Incidence refers to the number of new cases of a disease/condition in a population during a given period.
Prevalence refers to the number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.
List all of the sociocultural factors.
Family
Peer Group
Employment
Education
Housing
Income
Access to Health Information
Discuss how anxiety and depression can impact on 3 of the dimensions of health and wellbeing.
Physical: increased heart rate, nausea, difficulty falling asleep, low energy, over eating, aches and pains.
Social: social isolation, not wanting contact.
Mental: feeling stressed, negative thought patterns, low self-esteem.
Emotional: Unable to gain control of anxiety or worry, unable to control sadness, unable to regulate emotions.
Spiritual: reduced motivation to see meaning in life, less hope, less inner peace and harmony.