UNIT 1 AOS 1 Health & Wellbeing

• Social Health and Wellbeing 


  Concerned with the ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others as well as the ability to manage and adapt a different social situations

  e.g.

  supportive network of friends, effective communication with others productive relationships with others
• Socioeconomic Status 


  SES is a measure used to determine a person social and economic status using the factors of income occupation and education
• Mortality 


  Refers to death per population

  indication of how many deaths occurred in a population in a given period for a specific cause

  usually measured per 100,000 in a 12 month period
• Core Activity Limitation 


  When an individual has difficulty or requires assistance with any

  self care bathing showering eating feeding

  mobility moving around or away from home getting out of bed

  communication in own language understanding being understood by strangers, friends family in sign language or lip reading
• Levels of core activity limitation

  Profound

  severe

  moderate

  mild
• Psychological Distress 


  Refers to unpleasant feelings and emotions that impact on an individuals level of functioning
• Dynamic and subjective 


  Dynamic constantly changing

  subjective influence by or based on personal beliefs, feelings and opinions
• Y.L.D. Cause 


  Caused by losing healthy years of life because of living with illness disease or disability
• Health status 


  Refers to measurable aspects of health taking into account physical mental emotional social and spiritual health and wellbeing
• Ways to measure morbidity

  The number or rates of people reporting a condition

  the years lost due to disability
• morbidity 


  Refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group
• D.A.L.Y

  Disability adjusted life years

  a measure burden of disease

  one D.A.L.Y is equal to one year of healthy life loss due to illness, disease injury and or death
• Physical health and wellbeing

  Refers to the efficient functioning of the body and its systems including the physical capacity to perform daily task free of fatigue and physical stress

  e.g.

  appropriate levels of fitness

  blood pressure

  strong immune system,

  freedom from illness injury and disease
• spiritual health and wellbeing 


  Can be defined as ideas, beliefs values and ethics that arise in the mind of conscious human beings

  e.g.

  a sense of belonging and connection to the world

  a positive meaning and purpose in life

  developing personal beliefs and values and acting according to those values and beliefs
• rates of hospitalisation

  The rate of hospitalisation per 1000 100,000 people

  occurs as the result of requiring medical care

  chronic conditions treatment and emergency care

  measured in hospital begins with admission and ends at transfer discharge or death
• Life expectancy

  An estimate of how long someone is expected to live if death rates do not change
• H.A.L.E 


  Health adjusted life expectancy

  the number of years someone can expect to live based on current rates on ill health and mortality
• illness 


  a subjective concept related to a personal experience of a disease
• Emotional health and wellbeing 


  Refers to your ability to recognise manage and expressing emotions in appropriate way.

  E.g.

  displaying resilience

  feeling emotionally secure and relaxed in every day Life

  ability recognise and understand a range of emotions.
• Prevelance 


  The number of proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition Present in a population at a given time

  all cases not just new.
• Burden of disease 


  Measures the impact of diseases and injuries

  it measures the gap between current health status and an old age free disability and disease
• Y.L.D 


  years lost disability

  a measure of how many healthy years of life are lost due to illness injury or disability
• Y.L.L 


  Years of life lost

  caused by premature death

  a measure of how many years of expected life are lost due to premature death
• Health and wellbeing 


  Refers to a persons physical emotional mental social and spiritual health and wellbeing and how they feel about their lives in relation to the various dimensions
• Wellbeing


  A combination of a persons, physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual health wellbeing

  can be described as how you feel about yourself and your life
• WHO definition

  Health is a state of complete physical mental and social wellbeing and not nearly the absence of disease or infirmity
• mental health and wellbeing 


  Refer to our psychological state in our ability to think and process information and have high levels of self esteem

  e.g.

  positive self esteem

  positive outlook on life

  being optimistic

  being able to cope with the normal stresses of life make decisions and use logic
• Incidence 


  Refers to the number or rate of new cases of a disease or condition present in a population during a given time
• Y.L.D + Y.L.L 


  Years lived with disability

  years of life lost

  YLD and YLL are each equal to one healthy year of life lost
• Aboriginal and torres strait Islander peoples view on health and wellbeing

  Aboriginal and Torres straight Islander people view health in a very holistic way taking into account the social, emotional spiritual and cultural health and wellbeing of the whole community
• Sociocultural factors 


  A Combination of social and cultural factors to help determine an individuals or a populations health and wellbeing

  relate to the conditions in which people are born grow live work and age