What is the somatic health of the individual? This is the current state of the body and organs.
What is related to the somatic state of a person? These are certain indicators or elements of health. Here we are talking about the level and harmony of physical development, the functional state of the body, the level of immune defense and non-specific resistance, about existing diseases or defects in development.
This is a kind of energy potential of the body in terms of biology and medicine.
Assessment of physical (somatic) health
Professor G. Apanasenko believes that the level of somatic health can be measured by a simple, reliable and affordable method. The assessment is carried out in points. To do this, it is necessary to determine some indicators:
- body weight;
- height;
- arterial pressure;
- brush strength;
- heart rate
- vital capacity of the lungs;
- the time it takes to recover the pulse after exercise.
This method helps to identify deviations from the norm in a timely manner. Somatic health is determined by other indicators:
- experience in physical exercises;
- general stamina;
- strength endurance;
- dexterity;
- the effectiveness of the immune system;
- maximum oxygen consumption;
- the presence of chronic diseases.
Somatic and Mental Health: The Relationship
This dependence has been noticed for a long time. Mentally ill people are more often susceptible to various somatic diseases. What is a child somatic health? About it further.
Most often, people with mental disabilities die from the following pathologies:
- cardiovascular diseases;
- respiratory diseases;
- injury and poisoning.
The more pronounced depression, the worse the somatic state in a person. Conversely, there is a deterioration in the mental state against the background of somatic disorders. Painful sensations in mental illness are worse tolerated than in a normal emotional state.
Somatic diseases often provoke exacerbation of such ailments as schizophrenia, affective disorder. Moreover, these mental deviations can have a functional and organic nature. Somatovegetative shifts, endocrine perturbations, vascular changes, acute infectious and other diseases lead to this.
Factors affecting somatic condition
Any disturbances in the human body can be triggered:
- Psychological factors, mental disorders that affect how somatic disease develops and proceeds.
- Mental abnormalities as a personality reaction to somatic disease.
- Mental disorder, to which physiological changes lead to somatic ailments.
- Somatic manifestations obscure mental disorders (masked depression, hysteria).
- Psychosomatic illnesses.
It is important to note the following. With various somatic diseases - severe, life-threatening - neurotic disorders are especially acute. For example, a stroke or heart attack, oncology or HIV infection, or ailments that lead to a defect in appearance, can provoke depression. It is important for the relatives of such a person to pay attention to this in a timely manner and try to help him. You may need to consult a psychologist or psychotherapist.
What affects a person’s attitude to his condition?
These are personality traits, age, previous illnesses, psychological stress resistance. One person will calmly perceive any of his physical condition, for another, even the slightest deviations from the norm will be very scary. As a result, phobia or depression may develop.
Dependence on age is very great. Consider somatic health in different age groups.
Children
What is a healthy child? It is noted that children are prone to higher morbidity than representatives of other age groups. They suffer from pathologies of a chronic nature. For example, this may include increased or decreased pressure, chronic inflammatory processes in the upper respiratory tract, diseases of the musculoskeletal system. Girls suffer more often than boys. Bad sleep and headaches are classified as psychosomatics. Here, the stress factor also plays a significant role.
That is, a healthy child can only be in a full-fledged family with a normal psychological climate.
Teens
All-Russian medical examination of children (2002) allowed us to draw the following conclusions. In the system of somatic diseases of adolescents from 15 to 17 years, changes are observed: diseases of the endocrine system, neoplasms progress, infectious and parasitic diseases, pathologies in the genitourinary system are observed. Somatic health is clearly suffering.
It is special in adolescents, and they determine it according to two fundamental processes that occur in the transition period. The latter is characterized by puberty restructuring of the regulatory structure, which provides physical, sexual and psychosexual development, on the one hand, and enters the final stage of psychosocial development, on the other.
Diseases of adolescents in structural characterization
What diseases are most often somatic in nature?
- Diseases in which the nosological form is common for age groups (we give an example of anemia and pneumonia).
- Diseases characteristic during puberty (for example, impaired bilirubin metabolism, referred to as Gilbert syndrome, osteochondropathy, hypothalamic syndrome during puberty, an enlarged thyroid gland).
- They are characteristic of the formation phase of “behavior disease” in life (increased injuries, STDs or diseases transmitted as a result of unprotected sex, the use of alcohol, drugs, etc.).
- Hypertension is on the list of rare diseases.
This is how the somatic health of a child in adolescence suffers.
Features of adolescents
Growing and developing organs and systems contribute to the specificity of morbidity in adolescents. Understanding the features of anatomy and physiology is necessary to differentiate the norms of age from deviation. So, the picture of hyperkinetic cardiac syndrome can be diagnosed as a congenital heart defect, and the inverted T wave in the III standard formulation of electrocardiography - as rheumatic heart disease, and possibly ischemia.
What suffers most often?
In this large system, we can distinguish the basis - this is a disorder of the endocrine system, pathology of the central nervous system and the fact of dysplasia (muscle weakness). In this case, it will be reasonable to correct the underlying pathologies rather than treat differentially disorders.
When analyzing the health status of an individual teenager, it is important to identify and assess the interdependence of different components of health (somatic, reproductive, mental, social component). In this case, prevention and treatment will be optimal and effective. In this case, the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa may be a "convex" example. A symptom such as cessation of menstruation can cause a specialist to be consulted.
The main cause of painful and meager menstruation (amenorrhea) is body weight below the age norm, as well as a somatic shift, a specific violation of the functioning of the liver. The starting reason is a deviation in the psyche and a problem adaptation in society. It is possible to adjust the menstrual background in young female patients with a complex effect on the reproductive, psycho-emotional and somatic spheres.
Consider how somatic and physical health are related.
Physical abnormalities
The specificity of a somatic disease in a teenager with a deviation of biological development is also observed. It was noted that in girls who matured early and quickly, hyperestrogenism is more often observed, bronchial asthma is more severe, more often anemia and cerebral vascular dystonia develop. Each type of deviation of psychosexual development has its own specifics.
Adults
Mature people respond more adequately to the disease. But the elderly become hypochondriacs, often suffer from phobias and depression. They listen to their feelings of self, become sensitive in matters of health. But this does not always happen. It all depends on the individual characteristics of the individual.
We considered somatic health. It is necessary to carefully monitor it, timely visit doctors and undergo a comprehensive examination.