Welcome to unit 3 HHD!

If a person has a broken leg, they are likely to be experiencing poor...

• Mental health and wellbeing

• Physical health and wellbeing

• Emotional health and wellbeing

• Spiritual health and wellbeing

An elderly person is likely to view health and wellbeing as

• being able to run an ultra- marathon

• the ability to carry out tasks independently such as living in their own home, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping and socialising.

• being alive

• receiving good academic grades and playing high level sport

Indigenous Australians often relate optimal health and wellbeing to:

• the absence of sport-related injuries, the ability to train at full capacity, high levels of fitness and the ability to compete at the highest level.

• management of chronic conditions. If their condition is being adequately managed and is having minimal impact on their life, they may see themselves as experiencing good health and wellbeing.

• having a strong connection to the land and their past

• their academic performance, sporting participation and physical and social functioning.

a disease is a more subjective concept related to personal experience of a disease whereas illness is a physical or mental disturbance involving symptoms, dysfunction or tissue damage

• true

• false

Two people with the same disease may experience different levels of illness as a result of their past experiences with disease.

• True

• False

An elderly person may be more physically fragile than a younger person, so the disease may take a greater toll, contributing to higher levels of illness for the elderly person. True or false?

• True

• False

The concepts of health and wellbeing and illness can be considered as a continuum, with _____ health and wellbeing at one end, and ________ illness down the other

• optimal; bad

• low level of; bad

• optimal; severe

• good; severe

Which is NOT a dimension of health and wellbeing

• spiritual

• intellectual

• physical

• mental

What is 'infirmity'

• the quality or state of being weak or ill; often associated with old age

• any disease or condition that lasts a long time (usually longer than six months). It usually can’t be cured and therefore requires ongoing treatment and management. Examples include arthritis and asthma.

• involvement in a community group such as a union, professional association, political party, environmental or animal welfare group, human and civil rights group, or body corporate or tenants’ association.

• a state of balance and/or calmness

What is a chronic condition

• any disease or condition that lasts a long time (usually longer than six months). It usually can’t be cured and therefore requires ongoing treatment and management. Examples include arthritis and asthma.

• infectious diseases which are transmitted from the environment; including through air, water, food and other infected organisms (including other humans)

• a physical or mental disturbance involving symptoms, dysfunction or tissue damage

• the spread of infectious disease through human populations across a large region such as multiple continents or worldwide