UNIT 3 AOS 1 DEFINITIONS Flashcards
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What is H&W?
The state of a person’s physical, social, emotional, mental, and spiritual existence, characterized by an equilibrium in which the individual feels happy, healthy, capable and engaged.
What is Social h&w?
Relates to the ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others and the ability to manage and adapt appropriately to different social situations. It also includes the level of support provided by family and within a community to ensure that every person has an equal opportunity to function as a contributing member of the society.
What is Physical h&W?
relates to the functioning of the body and its systems; it also includes the physical capacity to perform daily activities and tasks.
What is Emotional H&W?
Relates to the ability to express emotions and feelings in a positive way. Emotional H&W is about the positive management and expression of emotional actions and reactions as well as the ability to display resilience. Emotional H&W is the degree to which an individual feels emotionally secure and relaxed in everyday life.
What is Mental H&W?
The current state of wellbeing relating to a person’s mind or brain and the ability to think an process information. A mentally health brain enables an individual to positively form opinions, make decisions and use logic.
Spiritual health and wellbeing
relates to ideas, beliefs, values and ethics that arise in the minds and conscience of human beings. It includes the concept of hope, peace, a guiding sense of meaning or value, a reflection on your place in the world.
Social H&W characteristics
- Supportive network of friends
- Supportive and well functioning family
- Ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations.
- Effective communication with others
- Productive relationships with others people
Physical H&W Characteristics
- Healthy body weight
- Freedom from illness, disease and injury
- Adequate energy levels
- Ability to perform daily tasks adequately
- Appropriate levels of fitness
- Strong immune system
- Well functioning body, systems and organs.
Emotional H&W Characteristics
- Recognise and understand the range of emotions
- Effectively respond to and manage emotions
- Experience appropriate emotions in different scenarios
- Have a high level of resilience
Mental H&W Characteristics
- Low levels of stress and anxiety
- positive self esteem
- Process information to solve problems
- High levels of confidence
- Use logic and reasoning to form opinions and make decisions
- Positive thought patterns
Spiritual H&W Characteristics
- A sense of belonging and connection to the world
- Peace and harmony
- Positive meaning and purpose in life
- Developed personal values and beliefs
- Acting according to values and beliefs.
Dynamic in H&W
Continually changing - moving from good too poor, or poor to good - may be slow overtime or rapid
Illness
A subjective concept related to personal experience of a disease or injury
Disease
A physical or mental disturbance involving symptoms, dysfunctions or tissue damage
Health as a resource
Health is a resource that must be attained and can be lost. as it is a resource, it can be used to benefit individuals, the nation, and the globe.
Individual benefit
- Children can feel well enough to attend school where they receive an education and further literacy skills
- Adults can feel well enough to go to work and earn a stable income
- Parents are able to afford to feed their children , preventing malnutrition
- People can do the things they enjoy (e.g. : playing sport)
- People can lead independent lives with limited reliance on others.
National benefits
- The country can grow economically
- Increase in income for the country (GNI) allows the country to compete with others
- Governments can use the income to develop better health care systems to further improve health and enable universal health care.
- Less absenteeism at work increases workplace productivity
- When individuals are healthy, there is less reliance on public health care systems, promoting sustainability of the health system.
Global Benefits
- Governments in individual countries can use the increased income to develop health systems in their own countries, reducing the rates of communicable diseases and reducing the risk of global disease outbreaks.
- Morbidity and mortality are reduced, allowing countries to work together to combat broader issues such as climate change
- With more countries moving into the high - income category, these nations can work together to help eradicate poverty in the many low-income countries and achieve the targets of the sustainable development goals (SDG)
Prerequisites of health
Peace, shelter, food, income, A stable ecosystem, Sustainable resources, social justice, equity
Peace
Refers to the absence of conflict.
