...name a few, Bircher, 2005, said that health is “the dynamic state of well-being characterized by a physical and mental potential. The second and last definition was given by Saracci Radolfol in 1997 defined health as “a condition of well-being, free of disease or infirmity, and a base universe and human rights.” Health seems to be defined differently by many, but when it all comes to a head it means the same thing. Introduction This paper today will be discussing the following things about health and they are listed below; 1. Discussing ways in which society is conceptualized by a society, 2.What are the determinant of health in human, 3. What is the connection between how society defines health and how it pursues health, 4. Has increase access to technology changed that perception over the last decade and 5. Discussing the connection between health policies, health determinants, and health. Discuss ways in which health can be conceptualized by a society. There are several ways that health can be conceptualized by a society, and here are a few ways of Health is frequently conceptualized alike throughout societies, through past definition and chronicles. Also health is conceptualized by reorganized information gathered by way of research and also by getting information from reliable sources. Health is also conceptualized as what is called capital, and this can be invested in by individual to gain better health. But as we all know health cannot be bought...
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...ABSTRACT This study examined pattern of students study habit as a determinant of academic performance of Faculty of Education and Art IBBU Lapai. It also investigated how faculty and gender influences their pattern of study habit. The study employed a descriptive research survey type. The research instrument was titled” Pattern of students study habits determinants Questionnaire”. The face and content validity was ascertained by psychologist and Guidance and Counselling experts. A reliability co- efficient of 0.85 was obtained using split half method. The population of the study includes all faculties of Education and Art in the university. Samples were selected through stratified and random sampling techniques. Two hypotheses were generated and were tested using student t-test and ANOVA at 0.05 level of significance. The descriptive analysis revealed that self concept was very strong determinant of study habit, so also was method of study, family background, socio-economic status, peer group and course of study. Again, gender was found to have no significant difference in Faculty of Education and Art students’ study habit while on the other hand Faculty of Education and Art had a significant difference on their pattern of students study habit. The outcome of this study would be of immense help to Faculty of Education and Art in IBBU Lapai students...
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...Chickenpox is a highly contagious viral infection caused by the Varicella-Zoster virus. It is transmitted from person to person by direct touching the blisters, saliva, or mucus of an infected person and through air by coughing and sneezing. Chickenpox is characterized by an itchy rash on the face, scalp, and trunk with pink spots and tiny fluid- filled blisters that dry and become scabs four to five days later. The incubation of chickenpox is ten to twenty-one days and the disease is contagious 1 to two days before the appearance of the rash until the blisters have dried and become scabs ( CDC, 2011). Approximately four million people get this disease every year and it is commonly seen in children and mos frequently in the late winter and early spring. The symptoms includes a sudden onset of low-grade fever, feeling tiredness, and weak followed by itchy blister like rash all over the body. The other symptoms are low appetite, muscle and joint pain, feeling ill, and it appears fourteen to sixteen days after the exposure to someone with chickenpox. Mild or asymptomatic infections occur in children but it is more serious in infants and adults. Chickenpox is life threatening to infants and adults and those who have impaired immune system ( Maurer & Smith, p.212, 2012). Fetal effects are rare congenital symptoms which presence as congenital vericella syndrome with infection during the first trimester of pregnancy, low birth weight, extremity atrophy, scarring of the skin...
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...Determinants of Personality Every person has a different personality because there are various factors that influence our beliefs and attitude while we grow up and those factors are called determinants of personality. There are four categories of the determinants of personality and those are environmental factor, physical factors, situational factor, and heredity factors. Environmental factor is about how the environment influences us as a person and how it influences us in terms of our personality. We sometimes ask why there are people who changed in attitudes or why they have different attitude compared to other family members, and that it is because of the environmental factor where in the people in that person’s environment might have different beliefs and attitude that influence him/her to change. We can say that whether in good way or not, environmental factor plays a big factor in that influence our personality. Over the time, there will be changes in our physical appearance that might affect us in our personality. And that explains as a physical factor in the determinants of personality. Physical factors include the gender, hair color, skin color, etc. You might used to be a jolly person and as time goes by you tend to become more conscious and sensitive about your appearance and that will lead to change in your personality from being jolly to becoming shy-type person. Change in attitude and personality can also be influenced by different situations that we encounter...
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...AS INFLUENCE OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATES IN NIGERIA Ayodele, C.S and Adebiyi, D.R Department of Guidance and Counselling, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. Corresponding Author: Ayodele, C.S __________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT This study examined study habit as a determinant of academic performance of undergraduates in Nigeria. It also investigated how faculty and gender influence their study habit. The study employed a descriptive research survey type. The research instrument was titled” Study habits determinants Questionnaire”. The face and content validity was ascertained by psychologist and Guidance and Counselling experts. A reliability coefficient of 0.85 was obtained using split half method. The population of the study includes all faculties in the university. Samples were selected through stratified and random sampling techniques. Two hypotheses were generated and were tested using student t-test and ANOVA at 0.05 level of significance. The descriptive analysis revealed that self concept was very strong determinant of study habit, so also was method of study, family background, socio-economic status, peer group and course of study. Again, gender was found to have no significant difference on undergraduates’ study habit while on the other hand faculty of undergraduates had a significant difference on their study habit. The outcome of this study would be of immense help to...
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...physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’ (WHO, 1946). Thus this definition stressed the need of ‘well-being’ rather than absence of merely disease. SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF...
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...Discuss the ways that health can be conceptualized by a society When viewing the concept of health by individuals in a society, different answers will surface. Some people may view it in a positive or negative way or may even have both negative and positive perception. Some may conceptualize health as being the absence of diseases and illnesses and on the opposite side; individuals may associate health with disease, hospitalization and possible death. These are also the negative views on health. This is evidence that health does not have a solid definition. In 1948, World Health Organization (WHO) described the word health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. From my perspective, WHO definition of health, tries to include health mental, physical and social well-being into the definition, rather than just viewing health as just an asset. One way to truly understand this definition is by breaking down the key words used. Namely, physical well-being, social well being and mental well being. Physical well being can be defined as the overall physical appearance of different individuals, which includes physical fitness, healthy diet and keeping physically fit. When it comes to social well being, it can be defined as the state in which human beings are able to coexist with other human beings. Adaptation is very important when it comes to social wellbeing because, it is of upmost importance that in order...
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...The Healthy People 2020 was launched by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2010 encompassing 1,200 objectives under 42 topics (CDC, 2011). Healthy People 2020 had four over-reaching goals to: to eliminate preventable disease and premature death, to achieve true health equity and eliminate disparities to promote healthy development across the life stages, and create social and physical environments that promote good health for all (2011). It also aims to attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death (2011). The best way to do so is through a broad social determinant approach that reconciles health in all aspects so that the healthy choice is an easy choice (Healthy People...
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...According to the research of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the article “If We Are So Rich, Why Aren’t We Happy?”, there is actually a very weak correlation between “material and subjective well-being” (Csikszentmihalyi 822). After doing intensive research and completing multiple readings about happiness, I have come to a conclusion that happiness is a long-term state of being that is attained through an active approach toward everyday decision making while simultaneously is formed by aspects of life in which people have much less control over, such as their genetics and living conditions. Actively making new positive life choices, genetic factors, and the surroundings within one’s living environment all have an equally significant role in determining the quantity of happiness a person will experience and if that person will achieve...
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...alongside other determinants to affect the health status of Aboriginal Canadian women. Determinants of health refer to the circumstances in which people are born, live, grow, work, and age, that are responsible for most of the health inequalities that exist. Common determinants contributing to sub-par health status include: early child development, education, income, employment, social and physical environment, personal health practices and coping skills, access to health services, racism, and gender. These determinants work alongside Aboriginal-specific determinants like cultural identity, self-determination, and colonialism to create significant health discrepancies compared to non-Aboriginal Canadians. Aboriginal women are at an even greater disadvantage because of the role gender plays on top of the other determinants. The term gender refers to the socially constructed perceptions of feminine and masculine and is not to be confused with sex, which refers to the biological differences between men and women (Steckley and Letts 2010). While the two are different concepts, they are closely related and do influence each other because while biology may condition behaviour, it is in turn conditioned by the social environment (Halseth 2013). Health is also a social construct and issue, rather than simply a medical and technical problem associated with body parts and their functions. Because it is defined by and shaped in social, psychological, and economic environments and relationships...
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...Hepatitis B: A Global Health Crisis Gina Duron Grand Canyon University: NRS 427V November 15, 2015 Hepatitis B: A Global Health Crisis Approximately one-third of the world’s population have been infected with the hepatitis b virus (HBV) and 240 million people are infected with chronic hepatitis b infection worldwide. This communicable disease is a potentially life threatening liver infection. It has become a global health problem that affects all areas of the world. Many organizations, health care providers, and governments around the world are working together to address the health concerns that affect different parts of the world. By understanding the health determinants that affect hepatitis b and researching the epidemiologic triangle of hepatitis b, policies and plans can be developed to guide the community health nurse in her role in reducing the morbidity and mortality of this communicable disease. What is Hepatitis B? Hepatitis b is a viral infection that can manifest as acute or chronic. Approximately ninety percent of adults with a normal immune status can recover completely from a newly acquired hepatitis b infection. Infants, young children, immunocompromised persons infected with hepatitis b are more at risk for developing the chronic form of disease which can lead to life threatening liver disease and liver cancer. Symptoms of HBV include jaundice of skin and sclera, abdominal pain, fever, joint pain, weakness and nausea and vomiting. This communicable...
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...bacterium possesses result from immediate contact with its environment. Its must use its surface components to assess the environment and respond in a way that supports its own existence and survival in that environment. The surface properties of a membrane and cell envelope, including capsules, glycocalyx, slayers, peptidoglycan and lps, and the other surface structures, such as flagella and pili or fimbriae. Bacterial surface components may have a primary biological function that has nothing to do with path ogenicity. However, there are endless examples wherein a bacterial surface component plays an indispensable role in the pathogenesis of infectious disease. Bacterial structures may act as permeability barriers that allow selective passage of nutrients and exclusion of harmful substances; adhesions used to attach or adhere to specific surfaces or tissues; enzymes to mediate specific reactions on the cell surface important in the survival of the organism; protective structures against phagocytic engulfment or killing; antigenic disguises to bypass activation oh host immune defenses; endotoxins, generally cell wall components, that cause an inflammatory response in the host; “sensing proteins” that can respond to temperature, osmolality, salinity, light, oxygen, genome of the cell that will cause expression of some determinant of virulence. In medical situations, the surface components of bacterial cells are major determinants of virulence for many pathogens. Structurally, a bacterial...
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...N O R T H E R N T E R R I T O R Y D E PA R T M E N T O F H E A LT H Health Promotion Strategic Framework 2011 - 2015 www.healthynt.nt.gov.au NT Department of Health Health Promotion Strategic Framework 2011 - 2015 Background This framework provides a structure for describing the type of health promotion actions that are used across the Northern Territory. It enables a shared understanding of the actions that can be taken to improve health and wellbeing. It also provides guidance about embedding a health promotion approach into all planning processes, programs and service development across the NT. While this framework is intended to be used within the health sector, we strongly encourage other sectors and agencies outside of the health domain to use the framework. This framework should be used in conjunction with health promotion audit tools and other health promotion resources available in the NT, such as the Public Health Bush Books and the Quality Improvement Program Planning System (QIPPS). It is also designed to be used as a guide, together with other local, regional and national frameworks, policies, strategies and resources. Why Health Promotion? The World Health Organisation (WHO) acknowledges the growing evidence that health promotion and preventive health approaches are effective in improving overall health and wellbeing, reducing the burden of chronic disease and injury, addressing health inequities, facilitating the better use of resources and enhancing...
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...factors and social and physical environments (Longest, 2006). Moreover, there are many factors that indicate what health status in that certain area. The Institute of Medicine (IOM, 2001) deemed health as more than the absence of disease and injury, also Nursing agreed with this organic definition . The IOM (2001) implements the idea of "positive health" thus attached are four components: a healthy body, high-quality personal relationships, a sense of purpose in life, and resilience to stress, trauma, and change. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as physical, mental, and social well-being (WHO &UNICEF, 1978). The Determinants of Health There are a many factors that determine what health an certain area is within a society. Thus a society would know what health polices to enforce when certain determinants are recognize. So, below there will be a brief elaboration on some influential factors. Social Environment It’s evident that extreme stress or burn out can caused a person to become unhealthy. It’s apparent that some stress is natural and necessary such as a women giving birth, she has to experience some level of stress during the delivery process. Another example could be a person suffering from depression thus she or he also, will deal with pain or exhaustion .The depression could be caused by a social issues such as poverty or non- active social life. Are there available resources in his or her social environment? Is it a matter of lack of social...
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...ranks near the bottom of all states in areas such as education, income, and health, I will use, The Social Determinants of Health Model, to guide my future practice. According to, The WHO, “The social determinants of health are the circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work and age, and the systems put in place to deal with illness. These circumstances are in turn shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics” ("Social determinants of," 2013). In other words, in order to promote, maintain, or return a person to health, it is imperative to understand the circumstances of that person’s social and physical environment currently and historically. In addition, it is important to consider barriers to health imposed by community economics, worldview, and social policies in place. With these concepts in mind, I can individualize a care plan in partnership with the patient. By understanding the prevailing attitudes, social policies, and economics specific to the location of my future practice, I can also address conditions that create health disparities. For example, I might observe that I am seeing a large percentage of patients that smoke, or are obese, or have diabetes. To address these unhealthy habits on an individual basis, I will understand that people cannot be treated without understanding their personal and community environment. My goal in practice will be promoting optimum health in the individual, while understanding that eliminating...
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