Health for Individuals and Communities

Question 1

What is Health

Answer 1

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being

Question 2

What are the 5 dimensions of health and describe

Answer 2

Physical- Efficient functioning of the body and its systems providing capacity to carry out everyday actvities.
Mental- What is going well in a persons life allowing someone to cope with stresses of life, learn, realise abilities.
Emotional- How we think and feel, and how we cope with our thoughts feelings.
Social- Interactions with other people, social and communication skills and abilites we display.
Spiritual- Feeling a sense of purpose and meaning in our life .

Question 3

What is Eipdemiology

Answer 3

Study of the patterns, causes and effects of health-related states or events in a population to understand problems and their causes

Question 4

What are the measures of epidemiology

Answer 4

Mortality, Infant mortality, Morbidity (sickness), Life Expectancy

Question 5

What is incidence and prevelence

Answer 5

Incidence and prevelence are measures used to present morbidity data. Incidence is the number of new cases of disease occuring in a given period while prevalence is the cases of disease at a specific time.

Question 6

Define each of the social justice principle

Answer 6

Participation- Oppotunities for individuals and community members to be involved in decision making processes.
Equity- Taking action to achieve fairness by allocation resources and entitlements fairly across the population.
Access- Ensuring people can use treatments and services regardless of age, sex, ethnicity for improved health outcomes.
Rights- Maintaining a just society by protecting civil, political, econmic, cultural and social rights

Question 7

Define the determinants of health

Answer 7

Broad features of society-
Environmental factors-
Socioeconomic Factors-
Health Behaviours-
Biomedical Factors-

Question 8

Define Advocacy

Answer 8

Process of supporting a cause or position, or acting on behalf of yourself or another individual to make sure your or their best interest are taken into account.

Question 9

Compare the role of government and non government organisations in promoting health.

Answer 9

Government organisations allows health issues to be heard and responded direcly to parliment and government. NGOs gather greater publicity and consists of individduals who have the experienced health issue.

Question 10

What is a holistic attitude

Answer 10

Refers to the social, emotional, cultural wellbeing of the whole community.

Question 11

What is community based practises

Answer 11

Involves the strength and resources of communities, families, and individuals.