health and ill health

Question 1

biomedical definition

Answer 1

• views health/illness in terms of physical or biological factors
• defines health as the ‘absence of illness’

Question 2

biopsychosocial definition

Answer 2

• suggests that health/illness is the result of several interacting factors (biological, psychological and social)
  aims to enhance the person’s health rather than just make them ‘not ill’

Question 3

health

Answer 3

• a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 4

wellbeing

Answer 4

• the state of being comfortable, healthy or happy

Question 5

illness

Answer 5

• a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind