Concept of Health, Wellness, and Well-being

Question 1

Provides the narrowest interpretation of health
People viewed as physiologic systems
Health identified by the absence of signs and symptoms of disease or injury
State of not being “sick”
Opposite of health is disease or injury

Answer 1

Clinical Model

Question 2

Ability to fulfill societal roles
Healthy even if clinically ill if roles fulfilled
Sickness is the inability to perform one’s role

Answer 2

Role Performance Model

Question 3

Comprehensive view of health
Condition of actualization or realization of a person’s potential
Illness is a condition that prevents self-actualization

Answer 3

Eudemonistic Model

Question 4

Each factor constantly interacts with the others
When in balance, health is maintained
When not in balance, disease occurs

Answer 4

Agent-Host-Environment Model

Question 5

Measure person’s perceived level of wellness
Health and illness/disease opposite ends of a health continuum
Move back and forth within this continuum day by day
Wide ranges of health or illness

Answer 5

Health-Illness Continuum

Question 6

means without ease, the opposite of ease-when something is wrong with bodily function.( Professional definition based on a pathological process- OBJECTIVE)

Answer 6

Disease

Question 7

refers to the individual’s perceptions and behavior in response to being ill ( loss of function , not feeling well- SUBJECTIVE)

Answer 7

illness

Question 8

a state of social dysfunction.( response to disease or illness)

Answer 8

sickness