Health and Human Development

• Disease relates to a physical or mental disturbance involving symptoms, dysfunction or tissue damage.
• What is disease?

  physical or mental disturbance involving symptoms, dysfunction or tissue damage.
• Dynamic is constantly changing, may occur slowly or quickly
• subjective means different things for different people, based on their own experiences and beliefs
• illness is a subjective concept that is related to the individuals personal experience to a disease or injury
• What is Illness?

  subjective concept that is related to the personal experience to a disease or injury.
• what does dynamic mean?

  something that is constantly changing
• individual resoucres: can improve quality of life, may increase the chances of participation in health-promoting activities and behaviours. eg. sleeping well, living independently, working towards their life purpose, maintaining a nutritious diet, exercising regularly, effectively running a household and taking time for social and leisure activities.
• individual resources:

  reduces the risk of disease, injury and premature death.

  optimal health and well-being increase the ability to live free from pain and concentrate on activities that improve their lives, eg. studying, working and socialising.

  reduced healthcare costs (saving money)

  decreases stress and anxiety and promotes positive emotions. happiness
• National resources:

  Greater economic benefits eg. higher average income, greater productivity, less absenteeism from work, reduced healthcare.

  National Resources: improved life expectancy, reduced stress levels in the community, more participation in social activities. less strain on the healthcare system, contributing to short waiting lists for elective surgery.
• national resources :Savings from improved health can be used to promote quality of life, making more money available fro resources eg. education, improving infrastructure (housing and transport) and development of new industries.

  increases population's productivity and increase ability to work and earn an income. which can lead to an increasing the economy of the country through higer taxation revenue.
• what are some examples of National Resources?

  greater economic benefits (higher income), better life expectancy, more participation.
• what are some example of Individual resources?

  reduces risk of disease, injury and premature death, live free of pain, lower health costs
• What are the examples of health-promoting activities and behaviours (Individual Resource)

  Sleeping well, living independently, maintaining good diet, time for social, leisure time
• What are some resources that can be improved nationally?

  Education, housing and transport, new industries
• Global resources:

  reduces the risk of infectious or communicable disease spreading between countries (ie. Covid)

  Contribute to world peace and security- more likely to work for the benefit of themselves, country and planet if healthy.
• Global Resources: better equipped to produce goods and services that can be traded. global trade is important for the economic development of many countries- can help generate revenue for governments to provide their populations with essential resources such as education, public housing, healthcare and infrastructure.
• Global resources: promote sustainability. when needs are met and feel good about themselves, they are more likely to live their lives in a sustainable manner.

  Greater amount of revenue can be used to promote sustainable energy, water and agricultural systems.
• What can Global Resources help with?

  reduce risks of disease, world peace, better goods and services for trade, revenue goods
• What are the pre-requisites for health? minus 1

  Peace, Sustainable Resources, Equity, Food, Education, Shelter, Income, Social Justice,
• What are 6 of the pre-requisites for health?

  Food, Shelter, Stable Ecosystem, Social Justice, Shelter
• What does YLL stand for and mean?

  Years of life lost, a measure of how many years of expected life are lost due to pre-death
• What does DALY stand for?

  Disability Adjusted Life Years
• What does DALY mean?

  The sum of of years of life lost due to premature death and years lived with disability.
• What does YLD stand for and mean?

  Years Lost due to Disability, measure of how many healthy years lost due to inj dis or die