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U11.1: The Concept of Health Flashcards

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state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of diseases and infirmity (WHO)

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Health

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T/F:
Understanding the concept of health is the basis in health care.

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T

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4 concepts of health

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  1. biomedical concept
  2. ecological concept
  3. psychosocial concept
  4. holistic concept
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What concept of health:
merely the absence of disease

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Biomedical Concept

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What concept of health:
If the person is sick, he is considered healthy.

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Biomedical Concept

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What concept of health:
Human body = machine

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Biomedical Concept

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What concept of health:
Has minimized the role of the environment, social, and cultural determinants of health

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Biomedical Concept

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What concept of health:
Experts viewed health as a dynamic equilibrium between the human body and the environment.

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Ecological Concept

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What concept of health:
Disease: maladjustment between the human body and the environment

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Ecological Concept

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What concept of health:
Experts viewed health as a dynamic equilibrium between the human body and the environment.

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Ecological Concept

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What concept of health:
Regard health as both a biological and social phenomenon

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Psychosocial Concept

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What concept of health:
Takes into consideration the social, psychological, cultural, economic, and political factors

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Psychosocial Concept

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What concept of health:
Synthesis of all the other concepts

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Holistic Concept

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What concept of health:
Recognizes the strength of social, economic, political, and environmental aspects

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Holistic Concept

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What concept of health:
Well-being as a whole

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Holistic Concept

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What concept of health:
Emphasis is on the promotion and preservation of health

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Holistic Concept

17
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illness

a. individual
b. community
c. doctor

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a. individual

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sickness

a. individual
b. community
c. doctor

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b. community

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disease

a. individual
b. community
c. doctor

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c. doctor

20
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Subjective state of a person who feels not to be well

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Illness

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A broad term that defines the poor state of mind, body, and spirit

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Illness

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The general feeling of being sick or unwell

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Illness

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Ambiguous symptoms

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Illness

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Condition of being ill

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Sickness

25
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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

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Sickness

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Viewed as suffering, curse, or punishment for sins before

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Disease

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Medicine has studied disease in terms of?

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  1. disturbance of bodily homeostasis
  2. morphological changes of internal organs
  3. morphological changes in tissues and cells
  4. irritation of organs and their actions, reactions (physiological)
  5. invasion of the body by an external contagion
  6. genetic alteration
28
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A channel to better understand the body’s capabilities, interactions, and limitations

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Disease

29
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means “without ease” (uneasiness). when something is wrong with bodily function

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Disease

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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

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Illness

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refers to a state of social dysfunction

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Sickness

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A person’s subjective experience of their symptoms; what the patient brings to the doctor

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Illness

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Underlying pathology; biologically defined; the practitioner’s perspective

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Disease

34
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The illness seen in terms of a theory of disorder

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Disease

35
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Social and cultural conceptions of this condition: cultural beliefs and reactions such as fear or rejection; these affect how the patient reacts

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Sickness

36
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Covers what is considered a disorder suitable for medical treatment

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Sickness

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