Health And Wellbeing Flashcards
(15 cards)
What is health and well-being?
The state of a person’s physical, social, emotional, mental and spiritual existence.
What are the dimensions of health and well-being?
Components that makes up an individuals overall health and well-being. Physical, social, emotional, mental and spiritual.
What is physical health and well-being?
Refers to the state and functioning of the body and its systems.
What is social health and well-being?
Relates to the state of a person’s interactions with others and includes the quality of relationships with family, friends and others in the community and the ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations.
What is emotional health and wellbeing?
Relates to the ability to express emotions and feelings in an appropriate way.
What is mental health and wellbeing?
The current state of wellbeing relating to the mind or brain and the ability to think and process information.
What is spiritual health and wellbeing?
Relates to ideas, beliefs, values and ethics that arise in the mind and conscience of human beings.
What are the prerequisites for health?
Peace, shelter, education, food, income, stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice and equity.
What is optimal health and wellbeing?
The highest level of health and wellbeing an individual can realistically attain and any particular time.
What is food security?
The state in which all persons obtain nutritionally adequate, culturally appropriate, safe food regularly through local non-emergency sources.
What is social justice?
fairness in society
What is equity?
The absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences.
What is the subjective nature of health and wellbeing?
The way in which people’s view of health and wellbeing is influenced by or based on personal beliefs, feelings, experiences or opinions.
What is self-esteem?
reflects a person’s overal subjective emotional evaluation of their own worth.
What does dynamic mean?
Continually changing
