UNIT 11: THE CONCEPT OF HEALTH Flashcards
Good Health and Well-being is what SDG?
SDG 3
SDG 3 aspires to ensure the health and well-being for all including a bold statement to end epidemics of: (3)
AIDS
Tuberculosis
Malaria
By 2030
State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of a disease and infirmity
Health
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of a disease and infirmity
Was stated by?
WHO
Concepts of Health (4)
Biomedical Concept
Ecological Concept
Psychosocial Concept
Holistic Concept
Concepts of Health
Merely the absence of disease
If the person is not sick, he is considered healthy
Biomedical Concept
Concepts of Health
The human body is a machine and disease is analogous to the breakdown of this machine
Biomedical Concept
Concepts of Health
Minimizes the role of the environmental, social, and cultural determinants of health and was then found inadequate
Biomedical Concept
Concepts of Health
Health as a dynamic equilibrium between the human body and the environment
Ecological Concept
Concepts of Health
Disease as a maladjustment between the human body and the environment
Ecological Concept
Concepts of Health
Regards health as both a biological and social phenomenon
Psychosocial Concept
Psychosocial concept takes into consideration the following factors: (5)
Social
Psychological
Cultural
Economic
Political
Concepts of Health
A synthesis of all the other concepts with emphasis on the promotion and preservation of health
Holistic Concept
Concepts of Health
Holistic concept recognizes the strength of: (4)
Social
Economic
Environmental
Political
SEEP
Concepts of Health
Views well-being as a whole
Holistic Concept
True or False
Illness is the objective state of a person who feels not to be well
False
subjective state
A broad term that defines the poor state of mind, body, and spirit
Illness
The general feeling of being sick or unwell
Illness
The condition of being ill
Sickness
Related to the social role a person with illness takes or is given in society
Sickness
Social and cultural conceptions of this condition, cultural beliefs and reactions that affects how the patient reacts
Sickness
True or False
Social and cultural conceptions, beliefs, and reactions affect how a patient reacts
True
Covers what is considered a disorder suitable for treatment
Sickness
A person’s subjective experience of their symptoms; what they bring to the docor
Illness
True or False
Disease is biologically defined
True
A channel to better understant the body’s capabilities, interactions, and limitations
Disease
A derangement or disruption of the body or some parts of the organ of the body
a. Illness
b. Sickness
c. Disease
c. Disease
Defined disease as a derangement or disruption of the body or some parts of the organ of the body
Oxford
Defined disease as a condition in which body health is impaired, resulting to an interruption of the human body’s vital functions, leading to a departure from the state of health
Webster
A condition in which body health is impaired, resulting to an interruption of the human body’s vital functions, leading to a departure from the state of health
a. Illness
b. Sickness
c. Disease
c. Disease
True or False
Disease is characterized by an underlying pathology that is biologically defined based on the patient’s perspective
False
Practitioner or doctor’s perspective
Medicine has studied disease in terms of: (6)
Disturbance of bodily homeostasis
Morphological changes of internal organs
Morphological changes in tissues and cells
Irritation of organs and their actions, reactions
Invasion of the body by an external contagion
Genetic alteration
Meaning of the term “disease”
Without ease (uneasiness)
