Models of Health

Question 1

What are the models of health?

Answer 1

Clinical Model
Role Performance Model
Adaptive Model
Eudaimonistic Model|
Agent-host-environment Model

Question 2

The narrowest interpretation of health occurs in the ________
model. People are viewed as physiological systems with
related functions, and health is identified by the absence of
signs and symptoms of disease or injury. It is considered
the state of not being “sick.”

Answer 2

Clinical Model

Question 3

In this model, the opposite of health is disease or injury. Many medical practitioners have used the ________ model in their focus on the relief of signs and symptoms of disease and elimination of malfunction and pain. When these signs and symptoms are no longer present, the medical practitioner considers the individual’s health restored.

Answer 3

Clinical Model

Question 4

According to this model, people who can fulfill their roles are healthy even if they have clinical illness. For example, a man who works all day at his job as expected is healthy even though he partially deaf. It is assumed in this model that sickness is the inability to perform one’s work role.

Answer 4

Role Performance Model

Question 5

health is a creative process; disease is a failure in adaptation, or maladaptation. The aim of treatment is to restore the ability of the person to adapt, that is, to cope.

Answer 5

Adaptive Model

Question 6

According to this model, extreme good health is flexible adaptation to the environment and interaction with the environment to maximum advantage.

Answer 6

Adaptive Model

Question 7

incorporates a comprehensive view of health. Health is seen as a condition of actualization or realization of a person’s potential.

Answer 7

Eudaimonistic Model

Question 8

In this model the highest
aspiration of people is fulfillment and complete
development, which is ____________. Illness, in this
model, is a condition that prevents self-actualization.

Answer 8

Eudaimonistic Model

Question 9

predicting illness rather than in promoting wellness

Answer 9

agent-host-environment model

Question 10

The ________ is the cause of disease; the _______ is an organism, usually a human or an animal, that harbours the disease; the __________ are those surroundings and conditions external to the human or animal that cause or allow disease transmission;

Answer 10

agent
host
environment