Sociocultural Influences on Health and Wellbeing PDF

Health Status Indicator Definition Life expectancy An indication of how long a person can expect to live Morbidity Illness: cold and flu, sports injuries, asthma, cancer, heart disease Mortality Death Incidence...

Health Status Indicator Definition Life expectancy An indication of how long a person can expect to live Morbidity Illness: cold and flu, sports injuries, asthma, cancer, heart disease Mortality Death Incidence Number of new cases of an illness during a given period Prevalence Number of cases at a given time Burden of Disease Measure of the impact of disease and injuries Years of Life Lost (YLL) The numbers of life lost due to premature death Years lost due to disability (YLD) The numbers of years lost (although living) due to disability, illness or injury Disability adjusted life years A measure of time lost due to the premature death and illness (DALYs) What are they? Sociocultural factors help determine an individual's or populations health and wellbeing, and are considered to be anything related to the social and cultural conditions into which people are born, grow, live, work and age that work raise or lower the health status. List the sociocultural influences on health and wellbeing ​ Social connections ​ Social exclusion, social isolation ​ Early life experiences ​ Food scarcity ​ Socioeconomic status = Education + employment + income ​ Access to healthcare Social Connections - Friends  ​ Interests ​ Activates you are involved in at school within your community ​ Values ​ Influence behaviours and decision making How do your friends impact your health behaviours and health status? My friends impact my behaviours and health issues because I tend to follow what I friends do. Social Connections – Family ​ Food intake ​ Exercise ​ Family cohesion ​ Role models ​ Community participation How does your family impact your health behaviours and health status? My family impacts my health behaviours and status because whatever background they grew up on impacts me because they grew up either in a good or bad background which could affect me. Social isolation and social exclusion Social exclusion: Not participating in society. Some people exclude themselves because of gender or race, however people could get excluded by friends and family. Social isolation: not being in regular contact with others How does being socially excluded or isolated impact your health behaviours and health status? Being excluded could lead to severe mental health and withdraw from other activities Socioeconomic Status = Education + income + occupation ​ Develop essential knowledge and skills ​ Ability to get a job ​ Ability to go on and study further How do your education, income and occupation impact your health behaviours and status? Growing up and not having a great income your family gets or don’t get a great imcome you probably would find it hard to get a job. Early life experiences ​ Early life experiences play and important role in shaping an individual and their behaviour. Food Security  ​ Functioning of the body systems ​ Better physical health Access to Healthcare and Support Services How does your access to information and services related to health impact your health behaviours and health status? Being online and you have psycoligal Ottawa Charter for health promotion World Health Organisation (2017) The first International Conference on Health Promotion, meeting in Ottawa this 21st day of November 1986, hereby presents this CHARTER for action to achieve Health for All by the year 2000 and beyond. This conference was primarily a response to growing expectations for a new public health movement around the world. Discussions focused on the needs in industrialized countries, but took into account similar concerns in all other regions. It built on the progress made through the Declaration on Primary Health Care at Alma-Ata, the World Health Organization's Targets for Health for All document, and the recent debate at the World Health Assembly on intersectoral action for health. Prerequisites for Health The fundamental conditions and resources for health are: Peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable eco system, sustainable resources, social justice and equality Improvement in health requires a secure foundation in these basic prerequisites. https://www.who.int/teams/health-promotion/enhanced-wellbeing/first-global-conference Watch the following video: The Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion Health Description Examples Promotion Action Area Developing Oppotinties related to their health to Quitline (quit smoking) Personal Skills make them stay healthy Creative Providong environments that support Shady areas to be out of the sun in schools supportive good health environment Strength Communities to learn and take action Fatality free action, people are able to learn community about their driving and make sure they're a action safe driver. Reorienting Health promotion is shared around Promoters of health not just curing health health services others (change of something) Building healthy Ensure that supportive community is Non-smoking workplaces public policy here to enhance education for ndigenous people