Mental and physical health

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Mental and physical health

• Piret Sokmann

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How do we understand our health?

• Health has been defined more than few hundred
  times
• Health can be understand as a personal value and
  also as social value
• Political aspect health is demanding great
  finances and resources from each person and state
  all together the way we affect our health, thus
  we invest in it (Rootman ja Raeburn, 1994)

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Definition of health

• The way we define the health, shows what is our
  view of life and how do we do our decisions
• Health is conseption of culture it mostly base
  on the value judgements and depend on cultural
  environment

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Conseptions of health can be put in many
different sections of this subject

• Medical
• Academical
• Social
• Psychological
• And among other health conseptions

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The medical meaning of health

• Has been defined through negative aspects
  understanding health as a lack of illness
• Ignores social, cultural, behavior, environmental
  and other points

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The academical meaning of health

• Health is closely connected with psychology and
  sociology. The border of these sections we see
  health as a bio-psycho-sociological aspect. In
  that case, health is defined as a combination of
  biological, psychological and social aspects of
  ones health.

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Ottawa Hartas

• has created the main conseptions of health
  which is the most quoted one in the word health
  is a complete conditions of social wellbeing,
  lack of illness and absence of mental disorders
  (WHO, 1986)
• Harta gave health a dimension of social
  environment

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Ottawa Harta the most important 5 strategies of
public health

• Build healthy public policy
• Create supportive environments
• Strenghten community action
• Develop personal skills
• Reorient health services

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Health
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Mental health

• A part of health that consist of the ability of
  understanding and sensing the reality
• A mental healthy person is willing to learn and
  accept new things and ideas
• Mental health is connected with self acknowledge
  and accepting your positive and negative aspects,
  also coping with tensions and stressful
  situations
• The daily decisions made due to our health
  behaviour

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Health behaviour- why is it so that

• youngsters start smoking in spite of the
  obnouxiousness?
• college students miss classes and lectures in
  spite of the fact they wont pass their exam if
  they continue on doing it?
• people wash their hands after going the toilet
  only if someone is watching?

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Physical health

• By physical health we mean how a body and
  organsystems function.
• Physical health is combined with different
  factors such as weight, physical indurance and
  the way, our body works.
• When a person develops his/her physical indurance
  with exercises and sport, he/she improves his/her
  physical health.

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Social health

• Social health is mainly about communicating with
  other to make or build satisfactory relations for
  both sides.
• The ground to development of social health is put
  in a early age. The need to communicate and have
  lots of friends grows on later (age 12-15).

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Statistic
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Childrens death of insuries
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In Estonia our chlidren killers
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death of insuries in the age of 15 19 in the
world
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