Exam Flashcards
(41 cards)
What is health status?
The level of health being experienced by and individual or population after taking into account factors like life expectancy, disability rates and risk of disease.
What is mental health?
The wellbeing of an individual in which they can realise his/her own capabilities, able to deal with normal stresses of life, work productively and give back to the community.
Examples include, confidence, self esteem, levels of stress, thought patterns.
What is social health?
Refers to the quality of interacting with others.
Examples: social needs met, friendship networks
Physical health
Refers to the overall wellbeing of the body and it’s systems.
Examples: weight, blood pressure, levels of illness.
What is burden of disease?
The impact of a particular disease in relation to the amount of health life lost due to premature illness of a person or population.
DALYs
(Disability adjusted life years)
1 DALY is equal to one ‘healthy’ life lost due to premature death or living with an illness
Life expectancy
An indication of how long a person is expected to live if the current death rates stay the same.
Morbidity
Refers to ill-health, including disease, injury me disability. It is the level of ill-health in a population. Morbidity rate refers to the rate of ill health in a population in a given time.
Mortality
Rate of deaths that occurred in a population in a given period of time for a specific cause/ all causes.
Incidence
The number of new cases of a condition in a given time (usually 12 months)
Prevalence
The total number of cases of a condition at a given time.
Physical development
Changes that occur to the body and it’s systems.
Growth, increase in complexity, motor skill development, decline in body systems.
Social development
Refers to the social skills and behaviours individuals learn from a young age.
CRBSV
Communication skills, relationship skills, behaviour, social roles, values and beliefs.
Emotional development
Refers to the emotions and the development of the full range of emotions and learning way to express and deal with them.
SAME
Self concept, awareness of emotions, management of emotions, expression of emotions.
Intellectual development
Both the processes that occur within the brain and the increasing complexity of the brain.
LAMPKTC
Language, attention, memory, problem solving, knowledge, thought patterns, creativity
YLL
Years of life lost: a way of measuring mortality. If a person dies from a specific condition, 30 years before the predicated life expectancy, they have contributed 30 YLLs to that specific cause.
YLD
Years of life lost due to disability: measure of the impact of morbidity on a groups or population. Ie) indication of the severity of the condition and how much it interferes with normal life.
Individual human development
Changes that occurs and people experience from conception to death. Often characterised by milestones, that are predictable and happen in sequential order.
Puberty
Biological changes that occurs in youth that allows the individual to start sexual reproduction.
BMI
Body mass index: a measure of body mass to height, used to ascertain overweight and obesity levels,
Weight (kg) / height (m)2
Categories: underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese.
BMI and youth
Youth are still growing and developing, therefore their body proportion and fat levels change as they grow. Therefore have to use chart comparing to an individual of he same age.
Biological determinants:
Concerned with the body’s cells, tissues organs and systems, and how they function. They include genetics, hormonal changes and body weight.
Behavioural determinant
Focuses on the decisions people make and how they chose to lead their lives.
Sun protection, substance use, sexual practices, seeking help from health professionals, maintaining friendships, physical activity.
Physical environment
Physical things that make up the environment,
Housing environment, work environment, tobacco smoke in the home, access to recreational facilities.
