- Emotional aspect of health and well-being.
Emotional needs need to do with our mind. Like being loved, being under stress, feeling dejected etc. people need to have the positive feelings, like knowing that they are cared for. This is very important.
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Social aspect of health and well-being.
Social needs have to do with our leisure. If we have any leisure time and what we do with it. It also has to do with friends and if we have supportive relationship. If we have strong supportive relationship, it contributes a great deal towards a good health and well-being.
In doing my promoting health and well-being coursework, I am basing my research on my friend. Her name is Stacey and she goes to Saint Gregory’s high. She is sixteen years of age and about 5foot 7 in height. Stacey is quite am average in weight as she weighs only about 65kg. She lives in a crime free environment and comes from a family of six (including mum and dad). She goes to school every working day of the week. Generally, I would consider Stacey as being quite healthy as she does not have any health problems or hereditarily inherited disease or disorder but there’s just one thing……. She smokes and drinks. And she is quite heavy as well smoking an average of two packs of cigarette everyday and drinking about two units of alcohol everyday. Some of her hobbies are listening to music, laughing, eating. In her spare time she usually goes on the computer, catch up with my school work, eat, listen to music, sleep or watch TV. Stacey does not have a balanced diet her diet usually consist of junk food, carbohydrate, little bit of protein, little bit of fruits and fat. Stacey is not also a regular exerciser the only exercise she gets is the two minutes work to school when she gets off the bus every week day or on weekends when she is working round the shops at town centre. On the average, on a regular basis, she gets, about 4-6 hours of sleep everyday.
As I am doing my research on Stacey, I interviewed her, so here are some more facts about her!
She is twenty nine years of age; she has only about 4-6 hours of sleep each day, she is an open-minded person, she does not usually eat fruits, she is not a regular exerciser, she goes to school every school day, during her spare time such as break, lunch, she is usually at the computer in the library. Stacey admits that sometimes, she feels stressed it might be pressure from school work and she usually doesn’t handle it very well as she just keeps the anger in herself until it wears out which takes a while sometimes. She is a smoker and she drinks. Other activities that tend to increase her intellectual health she says are the computer because she learns a lot of things just by being on it for an hour or two. She doesn’t have a huge lot of friends or family but she goes on holidays really often. During the weekends, she often goes out with her friends.
Personally, she thinks that her emotional health is very good. She has a good supportive relationship with her close family and friends.
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There are some positive factors that may influence a person’s health and well-being. The lists below are the basic and important ones.
- Rest
- Sleep
- Money
- Exercise
- Supportive relationships
- Balanced diet
- Using the local health care services available.
- Good housing
- Stimulating work
- Not smoking
Good housing:
This is a very important factor that most people don’t really take into consideration because it really helps in improving the health and well-being of people because if someone lives in a good house and environment, they would be less at risk from illness, disease or danger than a person that lives in an indecent environment. For example, if someone lives in a house that is close to a factory that produces lots of industrial gas, that poses a threat to someone’s health and well-being because it may trigger asthma or lung cancer to grow person.
Money:
Money plays a very important role in health and well-being because without nobody can buy anything. And if someone can not buy something that would improve their health and well-being, they might fall ill.
Stimulating work.
If someone has a job or a school that they go to, they wouldn’t stay at home all day and be bored, and grow fat they would go out and work.
Sleep.
People don’t really treasure their sleep time and as a result don’t get the required sleep time for their sizes ages.
Balanced diet.
Diet means the way or type. Balance diet means the type of food people choose to eat. When most people hear balanced diet, they think of only fruits and vegetables. Wrong, balanced diet consists of all classes of food both fatty and vegetables. Balanced diet is having all the classes of food complete include fats, proteins and energy giving foods i.e. proteins, carbohydrates. Effects of not having a balanced diet can have a very negative effect on people. If someone doesn’t have a balanced diet, they might be underweight or overweight which may cause a serious threat to health. If they are overweight, the fat in their body might make them have heart problems. And if they are underweight, they might not have good body stamina and be prone to diseases. But if they are perfectly okay and have all the nutrients on their body, they would be okay and feel good about their self.
Supportive relationship.
Supportive relationship is the type of relationship that we have with close family and friends. The kind of friendship that we have with the people we have a good relationship with. It could be between an employee and an employer, a brother and sister, friend to friend, mother to son, teacher to student etc. having a good supportive relationship is very important because it makes someone feel loved and they know that have people to talk to when they are in need.
Bmi is a way to measure a person’s height and weight to see if they are right for each other. To measure a person’s bmi you need to collect the weight in kg and the height in meters and square it.
Stacey’s bmi is 90/1.67*1.67 that equals 26.6
Questionnaire
To further improve my client’s health, I will conduct a questionnaire for her to answer.
- How often do you eat a balanced diet meal?
Once a week every day often Never
Once in a while
- Do you have carbohydrates in your meal everyday?
Yes no
- Do you eat fruits and how often?
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- How many cups of water do you have in a day?
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- How many times do you eat in a day and why?
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Diet analysis
Analysing Stacey’s diet
Monday: Stacey didn’t have any fruits on Monday in her diet which is bad because she is supposed to have at least five portions of fruits and vegetables in a day. She also had only one cup of water which is bad because it could cause dehydration. Also she didn’t have any proteins which are essential for repairing body tissues.
Tuesday: Stacey didn’t have any fruits or vegetables either on Tuesday which is essential in a balanced diet.
Wednesday: Stacey didn’t have any fruits on Wednesday and she had too many carbohydrate and fat which is bad for her health and she didn’t have any minerals, fibre or fruits.
Thursday: Stacey didn’t have any fruits which give minerals.
Friday: minerals, fibres and proteins and vitamins are missing from Stacey’s diet.
Saturday: Stacey had a fairly good diet but just one meal contained more than 1500 calories.
Sunday: Stacey had too much fat on Sunday and had well more than 2500 calories which is not healthy for an adult her age.
Smoking
Smoking is a very deadly and disgusting habit. It poses so many health threats that smokers don’t even realise.
