week 5

Question 1

What are models of health?

Answer 1

theoretical concepts on hats influences health
what keeps people healthy

-biomedical model - most dominatn models
“Health is the absense of disease”
if you are not sick - you are healthy.
Cure focused.
However there are many aspects to health out side of disease.
Preventative health.

Biopsychosocial model of health:
complete physical, social, and mental wellbeing.

• biological, psychological, social=health.

those 2 models are very westernised, there are others.
For example the Social and Emotional wheel from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Perspective.

Question 2

what is Social and Emotional wheel of well being?

Answer 2

• different from international understanding
  -takes into consideration things like cultural connection and connection to country.
  -the ‘spokes’ of the wheel of things such as:
  connection to spirituality
  connection to family and kinship
  connection to community
  connection to land
  connection to emotional well-being - eg being able to sit in silence and experience own thoughts.