Personal hygiene is a main factor for physical health as by having good hygiene correlates that you will have better health and also a better lifestyle.
By having bad personal hygiene will make a person ill due to the lack of cleanliness. It can also lead to many illnesses and diseases. This will also affect the individual in a social way as by being ill will make the person stay at home this will give them less chances to socialize with their friends. This will make them feel lonely and isolated which will be an emotional factor.
Another factor that can affect physical health is the use of dangerous drugs such as alcohol, cigarettes or illegal drugs. Smoking can have a negative effect on the body as it can clog up the arteries and damage the lungs, body organs and can also make breathing difficult. Other examples of physical health would be the following:
Drugs/medication/smoking warmth and shelter (what sort of house do you live in?)
Examples of physical health
Blood circulation
Genetic inheritance
Health or accidents?
Exercise (how often?)
Diet
Sleep (how well do you sleep?)
How many hours? Dentist Rest (do you do jobs sitting down?)
Intellectual health
Intellectual or mental health involves a person's ability to think clearly and logically and to make decisions - that is, it involves the way in which our minds operate. It includes being able to reason and question, to challenge ideas and plan actions. The ability to organise, process and evaluate information is an essential part of intellectual health.
Examples of intellectual health
Motivation/reading
New technology
Damaging the brain Hobbies-reading
Interests
A baby who is not cuddled/shown affection, left in wet/soiled clothing/not fed enough when required/has no mental stimulation i.e. mobiles and toys etc will have poor mental health as they will feel almost constantly distressed.
Emotional health
Emotional health involves liking yourself and accepting others. It means understanding your own emotions, and having the ability to listen to others and empathise with their emotions. Importantly, it also means being able to express emotions. It includes controlling your own behaviour, and being able to deal with success, failure and challenge.
Emotional health means moving from emotional dependence to interdependence as we grow up. Being emotionally mature enables a person to have considerable control over their quality of life. Being emotionally mature enables a person to have considerable control over their quality of life. Emotional maturity also encourages cooperation and productive relationships between people.
Fulfil our own needs and not have to
Look to others to do so.
Controlling our feelings/emotions
Accepting the things we cannot change
Examples of emotional health
Recognizing our strengths and weaknesses
Manage the tough times
Able to manage our anger in a constructive way.
Being able to manage through tough times- This is an emotional factor for health. This can affect an individual, as by going through tough times can release stress and depression on a person. This will also then lead the individual not going out because of the way the way feel. This then turns into a social factor as the person will not be socializing with others.
Social health
Social health involves the ability to interact positively with friends, family and other members of the community. Relationships that are built on social needs, such as a sense of belonging, acceptance and being cared for, as well as caring for others, contribute to social health. Another aspect of social health is the ability to use diverse social skills in a variety of contexts.
Interacting with others
Family and friends volunteer work
Examples of social health
Leisure
Communication
Culture and religion
Relationships partners
Friends/school
An example of social health would be the following:
Hobbies and interests with others. This affects an individual’s health
An example of social health would be technology. This will have an effect on the person as the use of the latest technology will have a slow impact on the individual’s brain. This will have a negative effect.
Medicine is the science of diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease and other damage to the body or mind. (Source 8). People take medicines for a lot of different reasons, including: to fight an illness, to help ease the symptoms of an illness, and to keep from getting sick in the first place. When a doctor is deciding what type of medicine to give a patient, she/he will think about these reasons and what problem is affecting the patient. Sometimes a person may need to take more than one type of medicine at the same time - one to fight a illness and one to help him/her feel better while he/she recovering, for example.
Medicines have many advantages when an individual is feeling ill. These advantages may include:
- Pain relief
- To fight infection
- To fight disease
- To assist a body mechanism to correct itself
- To balance systems and organs in the body
Medicines keep people healthy as they are fighting against illnesses/disease that an individual might have. When feeling ill one must take medicines to feel better. This also has an affect on health itself. By an individual not taking his/her regular medicines on time may have a negative effect on the person. This is because the medicine/antibiotics are not fighting against any infection/illness. This may have a negative effect on the person’s health which may result in making them feel ill.