Models of health Flashcards
What is physical health?
mechanical functioning of body
What is mental health?
ability to think clearly
What is emotional health?
ability to recognise emotions
What is social health?
ability to make relationships
What is societal health?
linked to everything surrounding that person
What is BIOMEDICAL model?
health is freedom from diseases and abnormalities
What are advantages of biomedical model?
- success in diagnosis and treatment
- objective and standardised
What are disadvantages of biomedical model?
- social and mental factor not included
- less individualised
- focus only on physical changes and diagnosis
- disease orientated
What is the WHO model?
health is a complete state of physical, mental and social well being
What are advantages of WHO model?
- all aspects considered
- holistic and subjective
What are disadvantages of WHO model?
- unrealistic
- too generalised as differences between people
- interactions not considered
- hard to define complete state
- any defect can be seen as not healthy
What is SOCIAL model?
health is an optimum capacity of an individual for effective performance of roles and tasks for which he has socialised
What are advantages of social model?
- address social ,economic and environmental determinants
- specific to everyone
What are disadvantages of social model?
mental health not considered
it is role dependant and some unemployed
What is health and illness?
standards of adequacy relative to capacities for performance of activities carried out