HEP lesson 1.2 Flashcards
Biomedical approach
chinese era
hippocrates
500 bc - pindar
chinese era
people disturb natural order
hippocrates
health = equilibrium
help nature with medications to re establish equilibirum
500 BC - pindar
harmonic organ functioning
eliminate harmful agent
philosophical and mental hygienic approach
plato
democritus
industrial revolution
philosophical
andrija stampar 1948
1984
PLATO
health as internal harmony
highest moral behavior and philosophical meaning of life
democritus
health = human behavior
PRAY TO GOD we become healthier
divine intervention
industrial revolution
health = ability of a person to adjust to the requirements & environmental influences that he/she could bear
philosophical approach
health as an individual’s maximal capacity for self realization and self achievement
internal strength and capacities sense of satisfaction or dissatisfaction
andrija stampar 1948
complete physical, mental, and social well being
not merely absence of diseases or infirmity
1984
it is a right of a person to have the ability to lead a socially & economically productive life
health is influenced by factors outside the domain of the health sector: social, economic, political
aaron antonovsky
critiqued earlier WHO definition
miller’s theory of life systems hierarchy
individual is a complex system composed of a higher system such as family, local community, global social, and ecological system
internal smaller subcomponents like molecules, cells –> more complex systems like cv and reproductive
health requires processes that maintain dynamic equilibrium
exogenous determinants of health
physical/social envi, lifestyle
endogenous determinants of health
hereditary and acquired
health promotion
enabling people to take control over their health and its determinants