Introduction to Health and Wellbeing Flashcards
What is the biomedical model?
Tends to mean the absence of disease.
The human body is like a machine, and disease results from the breakdown of this machine.
Development in medical and social sciences led to the convulsion that the biomedical concept was inadequate.
What is the Biopsychosocial (BPS) model?
It is a multi-dimensional process. Recognises the strength of social, political and environmental influences on health.
(biological, social and psychological)
What is the Ecological concept?
Ecologists view health as a dynamic equilibrium between man and his environment and disease.
Disease is seen as maladjustment of the human organism to the environment.
What are the Dimensions of Health?
Individual (social, mental, spiritual, physical, sexual, emotional, social)
Societal
Environmental
Global
Explain Physical dimension
It is the perfect functioning of the body.
Conceptualises health biologically as a state in which every cell and every organ are functioning at optional capacity and with harmony with the rest of the body
Explain mental dimension
Ability to respond to the many and varied experiences of life with flexibility and a sense of purpose.
What is mental health?
a state of balance between the individual and the surrounding world as state of harmony between oneself and others
Explain social dimension
Harmony and integration with the individual, between each individual and the world in which they live.
Quantity and quality of individuals’ interpersonal ties and the extent of involvement with the community
Explain vocational dimension
Work often plays a role in promoting both physical and mental health.
Physical work is usually associated with an improvement in physical capacity.
Goal achievement and self-actualisation are a source of enhanced self-esteem.
What are the emotional aspects of humanness?
Spiritual health, cultural dimensions, environmental, sexual, educational, philosophical.
