Welcome to unit 3 HHD!

If a person has a broken leg, they are likely to be experiencing poor...

• Mental health and wellbeing

• Physical health and wellbeing

• Emotional health and wellbeing

• Spiritual health and wellbeing

A number of factors influence the way people view health and wellbeing. Choose the incorrect answer

• age & fitness

• body weight & social networks

• income & occupation

• genetics & food security

An elderly person is likely to view health and wellbeing as

• being able to run an ultra- marathon

• the ability to carry out tasks independently such as living in their own home, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping and socialising.

• being alive

• receiving good academic grades and playing high level sport

Indigenous Australians often relate optimal health and wellbeing to:

• the absence of sport-related injuries, the ability to train at full capacity, high levels of fitness and the ability to compete at the highest level.

• management of chronic conditions. If their condition is being adequately managed and is having minimal impact on their life, they may see themselves as experiencing good health and wellbeing.

• having a strong connection to the land and their past

• their academic performance, sporting participation and physical and social functioning.

a disease is a more subjective concept related to personal experience of a disease whereas illness is a physical or mental disturbance involving symptoms, dysfunction or tissue damage

• true

• false

People may view illness in different ways at different times depending on a range of factors. Pick the INCORRECT answer.

• the number and severity of the diseases experienced

• the age of the individual

• past experiences of disease and illness.

• gender

Two people with the same disease may experience different levels of illness as a result of their past experiences with disease.

• True

• False

An elderly person may be more physically fragile than a younger person, so the disease may take a greater toll, contributing to higher levels of illness for the elderly person. True or false?

• True

• False

The concepts of health and wellbeing and illness can be considered as a continuum, with _____ health and wellbeing at one end, and ________ illness down the other

• optimal; bad

• low level of; bad

• optimal; severe

• good; severe

Which is NOT a dimension of health and wellbeing

• spiritual

• intellectual

• physical

• mental