What is Health?

Question 1

Who defined the 6 types of normality and when?

Answer 1

Grob in 1995.

Question 2

What are the 2 categories that normality can be divided into?

Answer 2

1. Context Dependent

2. Maladaptive Focus

Question 3

What are the 4 sub-categories of normality in the Context Dependent definition of normality?

Answer 3

1. Socio-cultural
2. Functional
3. Historical
4. Situational

Question 4

What are the 2 sub-categories of normality in the Maladaptive Focus definition of normality?

Answer 4

1. Medical

2. Statistical

Question 5

Socio-cultural normality can be defined in terms of cohort normality. What is cohort normality?

Answer 5

What is normal for people who share similar life experiences.

Question 6

How did Myers define conformity in 1999?

Answer 6

‘A change in behaviour as a result of real or imagined group pressure.’

Question 7

What is functional normality dependent on?

Answer 7

Context

Question 8

How could you describe situational normality?

Answer 8

Normal behaviours are constructed according to the environment.

Question 9

How does the WHO define ‘health’?

Answer 9

‘A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’

Question 10

What are the 2 models of health?

Answer 10

1. Medical

2. Social

Question 11

Name some limitations of the medical model of health.

Answer 11

1. It’s reductionist.
2. It’s a mono-causal model which does not take into account the influence of social and psychological factors.
3. Does not recognise the autonomy of patients.

Question 12

Define disease.

Answer 12

A pathological process confirmed by signs and investigations.

Question 13

Is ‘illness’ objective or subjective?

Answer 13

Subjective

Question 14

What is the best/ most comprehensive approach to health?

Answer 14

The biopsychosocial model/approach.