SAC 1 Flashcards
(42 cards)
Physical Health and Wellbeing
lates to the functioning of the body and its systems, it includes the physical capacity to perform daily activities or tasks.
Social Health and Wellbeing
relates to the ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others and the ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations.
Emotional health and wellbeing
Emotional health is about managing and expressing emotions positively, as well as displaying resilience.
Mental Health and Wellbeing
is the current state of well-being relating to the mind or brain and it relates to the ability to think and process information.
Spiritual health and wellbeing
relates to ideas, beliefs, values and ethics. Spiritual health includes the concepts of hope, peace, a guiding sense of meaning or value, and reflection on your place in the world.
INCOME - Individual perspective
Increases ability to afford resources such as health care, recreation, transport and education. All of these promote health and wellbeing.
INCOME – Population perspective
Promotes capacity of governments to provide social services and resources such as public housing, education, health care, social security, infrastructure, recreation facilities, law and order.
Stable Ecosystem
Ecosystem – a community that consists of all living and non living components of a particular area.
A stable ecosystem occurs when there is balance achieved between the environment and the species that live in the environment. A stable ecosystem promotes health and wellbeing.
Sustainable Resources
Social Justice
Social justice means that all people are treated fairly, including women and girls in both their private and public life. The underlying theme is equal rights for all, regardless of personal traits such as class, sex, income, ethnicity, religion, age or sexual orientation.
Equity
Relates to fairness and social justice.
It means there should be minimum levels of income and resources that all people have access to. Governments should put policy into place to ensure no one is disadvantaged in their ability to access these resources.
LIFE EXPECTANCY
An indication of how long a person can expect to live, it is the number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age if death rates do not change.
Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE)
It is the number of years in full health that a person can expect to live, based on current rates of ill health and mortality.
MORTALITY
Refers to death, often at a population level.
INFANT MORTALITY –
the death of a child between birth and their first birthday.
INFANT MORTALITY RATES –
the rate of deaths of infants between birth and their first birthday, usually expressed per 1000 live births.
UNDER 5 MORTALITY
the death of a child under 5 years of age.
UNDER 5 MORTALITY RATE
the rate of deaths occurring in children under 5 years of age per 1000 live births.
MATERNAL MORTALITY
death of a mother caused by pregnancy, childbirth or within six weeks of delivery.
MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIO
the number of mothers who die as a result of pregnancy or childbirth per 100 000 live births.
MORBIDITY
Refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group.
INCIDENCE
The number of new cases of a condition during a given period of time.
PREVALENCE
The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.
BURDEN OF DISEASE –
measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability. Burden of disease is measure in a unit called the DALY.
