Mental Health and Social Well-being Quiz

Mental Health and Dimensions of Health

• Mental health is not just the absence of mental illness, but also includes the ability to think clearly and coherently, with sound socialization in communities.
• Dimensions of Health include:
  • Social dimension: social well-being, defined as the "quantity and quality of an individual’s interpersonal ties and the extent of involvement with the community".
  • Spiritual dimension: connected to religious beliefs and practices, including personal integrity, principles, and ethics.
  • Vocational dimension: related to work, with work promoting physical and mental health when adapted to human goals, capacities, and limitations.
  • Emotional dimension: related to feelings.

Concept of Well-being

• Well-being includes:
  • Objective components:
    • Standard of living (income, occupation, housing, sanitation, nutrition, health, education, recreation, and other services).
    • International responsibility (cooperation in health through PHC).
  • Subjective component: Quality of life (including comfort, occupation, education, social and intellectual attainments, freedom of action, justice, and freedom of expression).

Indicators of Health

• Mortality indicators (crude death rate, infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, etc.).
• Morbidity indicators (incidence and prevalence rates).
• Disability indicators (health-adjusted life expectancy and disability-adjusted life year).
• Nutritional status indicators (anthropometric measurement of preschool children and prevalence of low birth weight).
• Health care delivery indicators (doctor-population ratio, bed-nurse ratio, population-bed ratio).
• Utilization rates (immunization coverage, antenatal care coverage, contraceptives prevalence rate).
• Indicators of social and mental health (rates of suicides, homicides, violence).
• Environmental indicators (air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution).
• Socio-economic indicators (dependency ratio, level of unemployment, family size).
• Health policy indicators (proportions of GNP spent on health services, safe water supply, sanitation, housing, nutrition).
• Quality of life indicators (Physical quality of life index).

Determinants of Health

• Socio-economic conditions (education, occupation, economic status, and political system).
• Health services (personal and community services for treatment of diseases, prevention of diseases, and promotion of health).
• Aging of the population (increased prevalence of chronic diseases and disabilities).
• Other determinants of health (science and technology, information and communication, gender, equity, social justice, human rights).

Responsibility for Health

• Individual responsibility (health activities, including promotion, maintenance, treatment, care, and health-related decision-making).
• Community responsibility (active involvement of families and communities in health matters).
• State responsibility (constitutional rights).

Determinants of Health (continued)

• Biological determinants (genetic constitution, chromosomal anomalies, errors of metabolism, mental retardation, etc.).
• Environmental factors:
  • Biological (viruses, bacteria, fungi, mosquitoes, etc.).
  • Physical (air, water, noise, altitude, etc.).
  • Psychosocial (habits, beliefs, culture, custom, religion, etc.).
  • Behavioral and socio-cultural conditions (lifestyle, habits, smoking, alcohol consumption, food habits, etc.).
  • Level of living (health, food consumption, education, occupation, housing, social security, clothing, recreation, and human rights).

Concept of Well-being (continued)

• Quality of life (the condition of life resulting from the combination of the effects of the complete range of factors such as those determining health, happiness, education, social and intellectual attainments, freedom of action, justice, and freedom of expression).

Test your knowledge on mental health, social well-being, and the dimensions of health. Explore the importance of clear thinking, sound socialization, and community involvement in maintaining good mental health.