health and human

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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.


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