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Flashcards by Amira BEHARI, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Amira BEHARI
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| Question | Answer |
| What is the definition of Health? | A complete state of physical, social and mental wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. |
| What is the definition of Health Status? | An individual's or populations overall health, taking into account various aspects such as life expectancy, amount of disability and levels of disease risk factors. |
| What is the definition of Burden Of Disease? | A measure of impact of diseases and injuries, specifically it 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 measured in a unit called DALY |
| What is the definition of Disability Adjusted Life Year | A measure of burden a disease, one DALY equals on year of healthy life lost due to premature death and time lived with illness, disease or injury. |
| What is the definition of YLL | Years Of Life Due To Death - It refers to the fatal component of the disease burden |
| What is the definition of YLD | Years Of Life Lost Due To Disability - which is the non-fatal component of the disease burden and measures years of healthy life lost due to living in poor health with illness, disease or injury. |
| What is the definition of Morbidity | Refers to ill health (as a result to illness or disability) in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group. |
| What is the definition of Mortality | Refers to ill health in the population - caused by disease, illness and injury |
| What is the definition of 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. |
| What is the definition of Prevalence | The number or proportion of people suffering from a condition, or the number of cases present in a population at a given time. |
| What is the definition of Incidence | The number of new cases of an illness or disease occurring during a given period. |
| What is the definition of Rates Of Hospitalisation | Episodes of hospital care that start with admission and end in transfer, discharge or death |
| What is the definition of Core Activity Limitation | When an individual has difficulty, or requires assistance with any of the three core activities (self-care, mobility and communication) |
| What is the definition of Core Activities? | Relates to three main areas of life: self-care, mobility, and communication |
| What are the 5 dimensions of health? | Physical, Mental, Social, Spiritual, Emotional |
| What is Physical Health and Well-being? | Relates to the functioning of the body and its systems. Including the capacity to perform daily tasks. It is supported by factors such as regular physical activity, having a good diet, good amount of sleep, maintaining a good body weight, absence of illness, disease and injury. |
| What is Mental Health and Wellbeing? | The ability to easily think and process information, a mentally healthy brain can positively form opinion, make decisions and uses logic. Mental Health is connected with stress and anxiety, positive self esteem, confidence and optimism. |
| What is Emotional Health and Wellbeing | Relates to the ability to express emotions in a healthy way, able to display resilience and positive emotional actions and reactions and able to feel emotionally secure. |
| Spiritual Health And Wellbeing | Relates to ideas, beliefs, values and ethics. Including concepts of hope, peace, a guiding sense of meaning or value, and reflection on your place in the world. |
| What is Social Wellbeing? | The ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others. The ability to adapt to different social situations. Supported by communication skills, empathy for others and sense of personal accountability. |
| Examples for the five different dimensions of health | Physical: Body weight, Blood Cholesterol, physical fitness, blood pressure, functioning body systems, absence of disease or illness Emotional: Mental: Spiritual: Social: |
| What are sociological factors that can affect youths health and wellbeing? And how can each of these cause a struggle in health and wellbeing? | Peer group, family housing, education, employment, income, and access to health information and support services. |
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