What is health? Flashcards
Define concepts of health.
What is the medical model of health?
The eradication of illness through diagnosis and effective treatment.
What is the social model of health?
It defines health and illness from the point of view of the individuals functioning within society rather than biological changes.
What are the dimensions of health?
Physical
Mental
Emotional
Social
Spiritual
Societal
What is disease?
Pathological entities diagnosed by means of clinical signs.
What is illness?
The subjective response to being unwell.
The Locker’s Conceptual Model of health states that a hierarchy can impact oral disease which can lead to…
Impairment
Function limitation
Discomfort
Disability
Handicap
What does Locker’s Conceptual model of health help us to do?
To see how ‘well’ someone is.
Improvements in health are often because of improved…
Living conditions
diet
Sanitation
Water Supplies
Risks from the social and physical environment that can impact health are: -
Poverty
Unemployment
Pollution
Hazardous work
Poor Housing
Poor Diet
Discrimination
What is the medical model for improving health?
To prevent disease occurrence but this needs compliance and it doesn’t change a person’s environment.
What is the educational model in improving health?
The promotion of education.
What is the social model of health?
The solutions are political.
Based on the Ottawa charter, for health to occur there needs to be…
Peace
Shelter
Education
Food
Income
Stable eco-system
Sustainable resources
Social Justice
Equity
What does the Tannahill model of health promotion include?
Health education
Health promotion
Disease Prevention
What is social stratificaiton?
That all societies are ranked at different levels, the class sytem.
