SPH 200 Unit 3 Questions and Answers Verified
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Historically, infectious diseases plagued populations and thus, shaped the definition of
health to
exclusionary
- the absence of disease.
As our understanding of disease and ability to combat disease via medical and public
health interventions advanced, health became
more positive
health was defined in the 1946 WHO constitution as a
a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.
-More positive definition
-this definition came along with the capacity to have multi dimensionality in the definition of
health
While health and wellbeing maybe synonymous, health and disease are
not opposite
- disease is an objective term, while wellbeing can be a subjective term based off experience
- allows for multiple dimensions of health, if well being is subjective and disease is a binary
measuring health
- Can be physically healthy but not mentally/socially well
- Can be physically unhealthy but still be mentally/socially well
,4 possible different dimensions in definition of health
1. Wellness without disease or injury
2. Wellness with disease or injury
3. Illness without disease or injury
4. Illness with disease or injury
- The multidimensional definition still remained finite as a measurement and leaves open the
option that there is some form of maximal or optimal health point to achieve which would clearly
be that you are well without injury or disease
Health can be improved, and thus it should not be measured in a
finite way that does not allow for advancements in physical, mental or social determinants of
health
1978: WHO revised its definition of health
called for a level of health that permits people to lead socially and economically productive lives.
- allows people with disease to be considered healthy as they can still be socially and
economically productive
- Could be a person who is obese or early stage cancer, as they can still be productive
Quantitative and qualitative factors are clearly important to consider as health metrics
- In young children, we have very quantitative milestones being normal and measures the health
of children, that's because those measurements are based on growth in cognitive development
metrics that are well established and can be tracked
- As we age, we lose the ability to provide these rigid expectation on physical health in particular
, When you become older, it becomes harder to apply
standardized health metrics, especially quantifiable ones, on how we expect individuals to be
- Ability to apply more quantitative measures to things like social or mental health as we age
become even more tricky
Measuring health needs to include
qualitative elements that will be influenced by social and cultural factors
- A certain social or cultural norm can be a way of aging which then becomes a more finite
measurement of health/wellbeing within a certain culture or group
Despite the recognition that health is much more than just the presence or absence of
disease, many of our health metrics remain
disease-based
- If you listen to updates from health canada about covid, they will usually report case based
statistics about covid and mortality, but they won't report much else
Most often, we default to reporting mortality
which is an especially crude and binary measurement of 'health'
- you are healthy or dead, which isn't a good way to do it
Mortality is
easy to measure, and often easy to attribute
- Can usually attribute some cause of death to a person that died, and that allows us to bin that
death into a category of disease we can track
mortality measurements can be presented as
100% Correct
Historically, infectious diseases plagued populations and thus, shaped the definition of
health to
exclusionary
- the absence of disease.
As our understanding of disease and ability to combat disease via medical and public
health interventions advanced, health became
more positive
health was defined in the 1946 WHO constitution as a
a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.
-More positive definition
-this definition came along with the capacity to have multi dimensionality in the definition of
health
While health and wellbeing maybe synonymous, health and disease are
not opposite
- disease is an objective term, while wellbeing can be a subjective term based off experience
- allows for multiple dimensions of health, if well being is subjective and disease is a binary
measuring health
- Can be physically healthy but not mentally/socially well
- Can be physically unhealthy but still be mentally/socially well
,4 possible different dimensions in definition of health
1. Wellness without disease or injury
2. Wellness with disease or injury
3. Illness without disease or injury
4. Illness with disease or injury
- The multidimensional definition still remained finite as a measurement and leaves open the
option that there is some form of maximal or optimal health point to achieve which would clearly
be that you are well without injury or disease
Health can be improved, and thus it should not be measured in a
finite way that does not allow for advancements in physical, mental or social determinants of
health
1978: WHO revised its definition of health
called for a level of health that permits people to lead socially and economically productive lives.
- allows people with disease to be considered healthy as they can still be socially and
economically productive
- Could be a person who is obese or early stage cancer, as they can still be productive
Quantitative and qualitative factors are clearly important to consider as health metrics
- In young children, we have very quantitative milestones being normal and measures the health
of children, that's because those measurements are based on growth in cognitive development
metrics that are well established and can be tracked
- As we age, we lose the ability to provide these rigid expectation on physical health in particular
, When you become older, it becomes harder to apply
standardized health metrics, especially quantifiable ones, on how we expect individuals to be
- Ability to apply more quantitative measures to things like social or mental health as we age
become even more tricky
Measuring health needs to include
qualitative elements that will be influenced by social and cultural factors
- A certain social or cultural norm can be a way of aging which then becomes a more finite
measurement of health/wellbeing within a certain culture or group
Despite the recognition that health is much more than just the presence or absence of
disease, many of our health metrics remain
disease-based
- If you listen to updates from health canada about covid, they will usually report case based
statistics about covid and mortality, but they won't report much else
Most often, we default to reporting mortality
which is an especially crude and binary measurement of 'health'
- you are healthy or dead, which isn't a good way to do it
Mortality is
easy to measure, and often easy to attribute
- Can usually attribute some cause of death to a person that died, and that allows us to bin that
death into a category of disease we can track
mortality measurements can be presented as
