health and human
health
A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
incidence
An relation to morbidity, refers to the number (or rate) of new cases of a disease/condition in a population during a given period, usually 12 months.
Hormonal changes
Are chemical messengers that contribute to many of the changes that occur during youth.
HALE
Estimate of the number of healthy years that a person born is particular year can except to live, based on current trend in death and disease patterns.
Intellectual development
Intellectual development refers both to the processes that occur with in the brain and to the increasing complexity of the brain.
Fine motor skills
Involves control over the smaller muscles groups such as those used for writing, tying shoelaces, cutting with scissors and manipulating the mouth to speak.
Emotional development
Learning to understand and control moods and feeling.
morbidity
Morbidity refers to illness or disease, so the morbidity rate refers to the number of cases of illness or disease over a period of time.
Primary sex characteristics
Physical sexual organs. For example, Girls, cervix and Fallopian tube. Boys, penis enlargement and testes grow and start producing sperm.
Genetics
Refers to the biological information that is passed down from parents to children at the time of conception.
Physical development
Refers to the changes that occur to the body and its systems.
Gross motor skills
Refers to the movement that involves large muscles group such as walking, throwing, skipping and kicking.
Social development
Refers to the social skills and behaviour that are learnt from a young age.
physical health
Refers to the state of the physical body. It is more about the way our body functions on the inside.
Health indicator
Standards statistics that are used to measure and compare health statues such as, life expectancy, mortality rates, morbidity rates.
mental health
State of well being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and faithfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her.
social health
The ability to develop and maintain positive relationships with others including family, friends, peers and colleagues
What is BMI
The check or measure of body mass index.
health status
The level of health being experienced by an individual or a population after taking into account factors such as life expectancy, disability rates and risk of disease.
Menarche
The onset of period.
Spermarche
The onset of sperm production.
environmental
These are the things that are behavioral. This means they are outside factors such as the environments we are in or the habits we establish.
hereditary
These are the things that are genetic. This means they are 'inherited' characteristics, passed on through the genes of your biological parents.
How is BMI measured
Weight (kg)/ height (m)2
trend
a general movement or pattern. Describing a relationship.
life expectancy
length of time an individual is expected to live assuming that present mortality rate do not change and that the individual will live a full life and not experience premature death due to any cause.
mortality
mortality refers to death, so the mortality rate refers to the number of death over a period of time.
interactivity
pattern of morbidity and mortality.
DALY
premature death and the impact of disability and illness on your life expectancy.
burden of disease
the burden of disease is a measurement applied to a statistical group,of the gap between current health status and he ideal situation of living into old age free of disease and disability burden of disease is measured in a unit called DALY
prevalence
the number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time
yld
years lost due to disability , is a measure of the impact of morbidity on a group or population.
yll
years of life lost, measure of how many year of expected life are lost due to premature death.
