Disease, Health and Illness

Question 0

What is Disease?

Answer 0

• Pathological changes diagnosed by signs and symptoms
• Considered to be objective and defined by doctors

Armstrong in 1994 said normality plays crucial role in disease
But normality can be seen socially rather than biologically defined because what is normal for one person may not be normal for another

Question 1

What is Health?

Answer 1

A negative view of health is defined as the absence of disease

WHO: “a state of complete physical, social and mental well being and not merely the absence of disease”