U11.1: The Concept of Health Flashcards
state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of diseases and infirmity (WHO)
Health
T/F:
Understanding the concept of health is the basis in health care.
T
4 concepts of health
- biomedical concept
- ecological concept
- psychosocial concept
- holistic concept
What concept of health:
merely the absence of disease
Biomedical Concept
What concept of health:
If the person is sick, he is considered healthy.
Biomedical Concept
What concept of health:
Human body = machine
Biomedical Concept
What concept of health:
Has minimized the role of the environment, social, and cultural determinants of health
Biomedical Concept
What concept of health:
Experts viewed health as a dynamic equilibrium between the human body and the environment.
Ecological Concept
What concept of health:
Disease: maladjustment between the human body and the environment
Ecological Concept
What concept of health:
Experts viewed health as a dynamic equilibrium between the human body and the environment.
Ecological Concept
What concept of health:
Regard health as both a biological and social phenomenon
Psychosocial Concept
What concept of health:
Takes into consideration the social, psychological, cultural, economic, and political factors
Psychosocial Concept
What concept of health:
Synthesis of all the other concepts
Holistic Concept
What concept of health:
Recognizes the strength of social, economic, political, and environmental aspects
Holistic Concept
What concept of health:
Well-being as a whole
Holistic Concept
What concept of health:
Emphasis is on the promotion and preservation of health
Holistic Concept
illness
a. individual
b. community
c. doctor
a. individual
sickness
a. individual
b. community
c. doctor
b. community
disease
a. individual
b. community
c. doctor
c. doctor
Subjective state of a person who feels not to be well
Illness
A broad term that defines the poor state of mind, body, and spirit
Illness
The general feeling of being sick or unwell
Illness
Ambiguous symptoms
Illness
Condition of being ill
Sickness
Related to a different phenomenon which the social role a person with illness or sickness takes or is given in society, in different arenas of life
Sickness
Viewed as suffering, curse, or punishment for sins before
Disease
Medicine has studied disease in terms of?
- disturbance of bodily homeostasis
- morphological changes of internal organs
- morphological changes in tissues and cells
- irritation of organs and their actions, reactions (physiological)
- invasion of the body by an external contagion
- genetic alteration
A channel to better understand the body’s capabilities, interactions, and limitations
Disease
means “without ease” (uneasiness). when something is wrong with bodily function
Disease
refers to the presence of a specific disease, and also to individual’s perceptions and behavior in response to the disease, as well as the impact of that disease on the psychosocial environment
Illness
refers to a state of social dysfunction
Sickness
A person’s subjective experience of their symptoms; what the patient brings to the doctor
Illness
Underlying pathology; biologically defined; the practitioner’s perspective
Disease
The illness seen in terms of a theory of disorder
Disease
Social and cultural conceptions of this condition: cultural beliefs and reactions such as fear or rejection; these affect how the patient reacts
Sickness
Covers what is considered a disorder suitable for medical treatment
Sickness
