Health and Wellbeing Flashcards
(27 cards)
What is the 1946 WHO definition of health?
Health is a state of complete physical, social and mental wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
What was the main limitation of the 1946 definition?
It did not give everyone the opportunity to be considered healthy.
What were the positive outcomes of the clarification?
It makes the concept of health more inclusive and achievebale. It states that health is an individual factor and will differ from person-to-person depending on different factors.
Describe health and wellbeing
Health and wellbeing refer to a person’s state of physical, social, metal, emotional and spiritual existence, characterised by an equilibrium in which the individual feel happy, healthy, capable and engaged.
What is the dynamic nature of health and wellbeing?
It is in a constant state of change, and these changes can occur slowly or quickly.
What is an example of dynamic nature health and wellbeing
An individual that feels stressed goes for a walk/run, which may help reduce their levels of stress.
What is the subjective nature of health and wellbeing?
It is influenced by or based on personal beliefs, feelings or opinions.
What is an example of subjective nature of health and wellbeing?
A person with a chronic disease may feel that they have good health and wellbeing if their condition is managed.
What is meant by a disease?
A disease is a physical or mental disturbance involving symptoms, dysfunction or tissue damage.
What is meant by an illness?
An illness relates to how a person feels and experiences a disease or injury. The level of illness changes constantly as a person experiences a disease or injury.
What is the difference between an illness and a disease?
An illness can be a perceived notion of unwellness or derive from a self-diagnosis. It can affect the body or mind in many different capacities. This differs toa disease where it is diagnosed by a medical expert and has a specific result on a body part or function.
Illness is dynamic as it ..?
Changes constantly as a person experiences a disease or injury. These changes may either be rapid and produce obvious changes or they can occur gradually and are more difficult to notice.
Illness is subjective as ..?
the level of illness may be influenced by age, past experience of a disease or injury, pain threshold and social support.
Give an example of when illness is subjective.
A person with a higher threshold for pain may experience a lower level of illness than a person with a lower threshold for pain, even though their disease or injury is the same.
What is physical health and wellbeing?
It relates to the functioning of the body and its systems; it includes the physical capacity to perform daily tasks and activities.
What are aspects of physical health and wellbeing?
Healthy body weight, optimal levels of fitness, appropriate levels of fitness, physical capacity to perform daily tasks, well-functioning body and systems, good immune system and the absence of disease, injury or illness.
What is social health and wellbeing?
The ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others and the ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations.
What are aspects of social health and wellbeing?
Productive relationships with other people, supportive and well-functioning family, supportive network of friends, effective communication with others and the ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations.
What is emotional health and wellbeing?
The ability to recognise, understand, effectively manage and express emptions as well as the ability to display resilience.
What are aspects of emotional health and wellbeing?
Recognise and understand a range of emotions, experience appropriate emotions in different situations, effectively respond to and manage a range of emotions and have a high level of resilience.
What is mental health and wellbeing?
Relates to a state of a person’s mind and the ability to think and process information.
What are aspects of mental health and wellbeing?
Low level of stress and anxiety, positive self-esteem, high levels of confidence, process information to solve problems and use logic and reasoning to form opinions and make decisions.
What is spiritual health and wellbeing?
Relates to the ideas, beliefs values and ethics that arise in the minds and conscience of human beings.
