Module 1: What is Health/Illness

Question 1

Illness

Answer 1

a feeling of unhealthy; often accompanies disease; might exist without objective disease markers

Question 2

Sickness

Answer 2

external and public mode of unhealthy; a social role or status

Question 3

Disease

Answer 3

a pathological process; doctors can see, touch, measure, smell the issue

Question 4

Biomedical Model

Answer 4

health is the absence of disease and functioning within normal parameters
- the body is thought of as a machine where its parts can be replaced and fixed as needed

Question 5

Holistic Model

Answer 5

health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease

Question 6

Wellness Model

Answer 6

Individual or group is able to realize aspirations and satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment
- Influenced by person, physical, social resources

Question 7

Holistic

Answer 7

health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing
- health is a positive state of wellbeing

Question 8

Wellness

Answer 8

health is a resource to support an individual’s function in wider society, focus on enabling meaningful life participation
- process not a state

Question 9

8 dimensions of wellness

Answer 9

intellectual, career, physical, social, spiritual, emotional, environmental, financial,