Life Orientation: Workplace, Health, Personal Development, and Cultural Ideologies

Vocabulary flashcards covering topics from workplace rights, health factors, lifestyle diseases, intervention programs, personal growth, and cultural ideologies.

Recruitment

Finding suitable people for a particular job.

Trade unions

Organisations that represent the interests of their members in the workplace through collective bargaining or negotiations with employers.

SADTU

South African Democratic Teachers Union.

POPCRU

Police and Prison Civil Rights Union.

SATAWU

South African Transport and Allied Workers Union.

NUM

National Union of Mineworkers.

Shop stewards

Full-time employees elected by members of a trade union to act as workplace representatives.

Work ethics

Rules of behaviour at work based on moral principles, values, and standards of conduct.

Societal expectations

What people expect and believe you should do or how you should behave in society.

Federation

A group of organisations made up of smaller groups, such as groups of trade unions or employers' organisations, that negotiate with government and represent their members.

COSATU

Congress of South African Trade Unions.

NACTU

National Council of Trade Unions.

Self-actualisation

To achieve your potential.

Hypertension

An illness where the blood pressure in the arteries is constantly high.

Arteries

Blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood to your body.

Blood pressure

The force of blood pushing up against the walls of the blood vessels.

Cardiovascular diseases

The group of diseases that involve the heart, blood vessels, arteries, and veins.

Tuberculosis (TB)

An infectious disease caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium, spread through airborne infection droplets.

Poverty

Not having enough money to provide for your basic needs.

Food insecurity

A state where people do not have access to enough food or enough healthy food.

Gender roles

The different roles and responsibilities assigned to men and women by society.

Sexually transmitted infection (STI)

An infection that is spread through person-to-person sexual contact.

Ukungena

The cultural practice of wife inheritance.

FGM

Female genital mutilation.

Knowledge perspective

The viewpoint, outlook, or angle from which facts and information are seen.

Lifestyle disease

An illness linked to the way people live that can be prevented by lifestyle, nutritional, environmental, and behavioral changes.

Psychometric illness

A sickness involving both the mind and body that may start with emotional stress and manifest as physical symptoms.

Foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

A condition resulting from alcohol abuse by a mother during pregnancy, leading to learning problems and school difficulties.

Cervical cancer

A cancer forming in the tissues of the cervix, almost always caused by human papillomavirus infection.

Hepatitis B

The most common serious liver infection in the world, which can lead to liver disease and liver cancer.

Educational programmes

Programmes that aim to teach people and make them aware of issues that affect them.

Intervention programmes

Programmes designed to address particular and urgent problems and try to improve them.

CHIPS

Community Health Intervention Programmes, designed to promote healthier lifestyles in Cape Town through sports and exercise to address hypertension and diabetes.

NICRO: Safety Ambassadors

An intervention programme for school-going youth aimed at promoting gender-based violence awareness and community engagement.

Impact studies

Research, also known as audits or assessments, carried out to measure and monitor whether an action has had or will have an effect.

Personal mission statement

A brief and clear statement that sets out a person's purpose, aim, or goals in life, reflecting their views, values, belief system, and lifestyle.

Vision

A mental picture of what the future will or could be like, providing direction and inspiration to achieve goals.

Ideologies

Principles, philosophies, dogmas, or an organised set of beliefs, values, and ideas about how society should operate.

World views

The general standpoint or side from which people see and interpret the world, formed by collections of beliefs about life.

Culture

The beliefs, behaviours, items, and ideas common to members of a particular group or society, including language, dress, customs, and rituals.

Intonga

Stick fighting, a traditional form of martial arts popular in Nguni culture used to prepare men to become warriors.

Laws

Statutes and Acts that serve as formal sets of rules.

Regulations

The details necessary to implement laws, created under powers granted by Acts.

Community services

Services provided by municipalities to ensure safe and healthy living environments.