11: The Concept of Health

Question 1

What is the SDG targeted in the concept of health?

Answer 1

SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being

Question 2

According to WHO, it is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity

Answer 2

Health

Question 3

What is the basis in healthcare?

Answer 3

Understanding of the concept of health

Question 4

What are the 4 concepts of health?

Answer 4

• Biomedical Concept
• Ecological Concept
• Psychosocial Concept
• Holistic Concept

Question 5

This concept states that health is merely the absence of disease

Answer 5

Biomedical Concept of Health

Question 6

Based on the ________ concept of health, if the person is not sick, he is considered healthy

Answer 6

Biomedical Concept of Health

Question 7

In the biomedical concept of health, the human body is equivalent to a ________

Answer 7

human body = machine

Question 8

This concept has minimized the role of the environment, social, and cultural determinants of health

Answer 8

Biomedical Concept of Health

Question 9

They viewed health as a dynamic equilibrium between the human body and the environment

Answer 9

Ecologists

Question 10

Based on this concept, disease is a maladjustment between the human body and the environment

Answer 10

Ecological Concept of Health

Question 11

According to the Psychosocial Concept of Health, health is regards as both a ________ and __________

Answer 11

biological and social phenomenon

Question 12

Psychosocial Concept of Health takes into consideration the following factors

Answer 12

• Social
• Psychological
• Cultural
• Economic
• Political

Question 13

This concept is the synthesis of all the other concepts

Answer 13

Holistic Concept of Health

Question 14

The Holistic Concept of Health recognizes the strength of the following factors:

Answer 14

• Social
• Economic
• Political
• Environmental

Question 15

This concept focuses on well-being as a whole

Answer 15

Holistic Concept of Health

Question 16

The Holistic Concept of Health puts emphasis on ___________

Answer 16

promotion and preservation of health

Question 17

Based on the diagram on the difference of illness, sickness, and disease

illness comes from ________
sickness comes from ________
disease comes from ______

Answer 17

ilness - individual
sickness - community
disease - doctor

Question 18

It a subjective state of a person who feels not to be well

Answer 18

Illness

Question 19

It is a broad term that defines the poor state of mind, body, and, spirit

Answer 19

Illness

Question 20

It is the general feeling of being sick or unwell

Answer 20

Illness

Question 21

True or False

Ilness is defined as something that is characterized by ambiguous symptoms

Answer 21

True

Question 22

It is the condition of being ill

Answer 22

Sickness

Question 23

It is related to a different phenomenon which the social role a person with illness or sickness takes or is given in society, in different arenas of life

Answer 23

Sickness

Question 24

It is referred to as the suffering, curse, or punishment for sins

Answer 24

Disease

Question 25

It is a channel to better understand the human body’s capabilities, interactions, and limitations

Answer 25

Disease

Question 26

Medicine has studied disease in terms of: Disturbance of bodily ________

Answer 26

homeostasis

Question 27

Medicine has studied disease in terms of: Morphological changes of _________

Answer 27

internal organs

Question 28

Medicine has studied disease in terms of: Morphological changes in ______

Answer 28

tissues and cells

Question 29

Medicine has studied disease in terms of: ____________ of organs and their actions, reactions (physiological)

Answer 29

Irritation

Question 30

Medicine has studied disease in terms of: Invasion of the body by an _________

Answer 30

external contagion

Question 31

Medicine has studied disease in terms of: Genetic ______

Answer 31

alteration

Question 32

The term disease literally means ________, when something is wrong with bodily function

Answer 32

without ease or uneasiness

Question 33

This refers to the presence of a specific disease

Answer 33

Ilness

Question 34

This refers to the individual's perceptions and behavior in response to the disease, as well as the impact of that on the psychosoical environment

Answer 34

Illness

Question 35

It refers to a state of social dysfunction

Answer 35

Sickness

Question 36

It is the **person's subjective** experience of their symptoms; what the patient brings to the doctor

Answer 36

Illness

Question 37

It is the underlying pathology; **practitioner's perspective** - ilness is seen as a theory of disorder

Answer 37

disease

Question 38

It is the social and cultural conceptions of this condition

Answer 38

sickness

Question 39

Cultural beliefs and reactions such as fear or rejection and affects how a patient reacts

Answer 39

sickness

Question 40

It covers what is considered a disorder suitable for medical treatment

Answer 40

sickness