Health and disease

Approaches to Health
Concepts of Health
Spiritual health
Psychological health
Environmental Health Sociological Health
Physical Health
Approaches to Health
Psychology = perceive health from the
perspective of individual situation
interpretation

Biomedicine = demonstrates the examined
persons disease from medical perspective,
because only the absent state of disease is
considered a health
Positive Concept
of Health
Negative Concept of
Health
Well Being

Not JUST the
absence of disease

Feeling good in
many ways

You are healthy
when you have
the absence of
disease

Therefore, if you
dont have a
disease, you are
healthy
Characteristics of good health.
The person has capability to do work.
The person feels himself efficient to
take decisions and work accordingly .
The person remains in sound mental
condition.
The person remain free from any
disease.
The person does not suffer from mental
tension.
Factors affecting Health:-
1. Social and economic factors
2. Environmental factors
3. Personal factors
4. Hereditary factors

Social and economic factors
There are many social factors which affects our
health.
For example,superstition,religious and social
beliefs etc.
In absence of proper treatment and care, effect
of disease can make the patient serious.

Environmental factors
The environment in which a man lives,
can also affect his health.
Environmental factors may be further
divided into two parts:-
(a) Internal factors
(b) External factors
Disease
What is disease?
Disease is Objective.

Symptoms have
been diagnosed
and have been
given a specific
name, eg
Chickenpox or
Cancer or
Depression or
Multiple Sclerosis etc

Either you have a
disease or you dont.
This child has measles
Health vs. Disease
Borders between health and disease are not
always easily measurable.

According to ek are disease and health
concepts that can not be separated from the
human being in his integrity of life,
composed of physical condition, social
functions and roles, attitudes and behaviors,
feelings and emotions.