ITESM Personal Health and Wellness

Andrea Sofía Castillo Pérez A00573166

10/08/2022

Evolution of health and disease throughout time.

Day to day we hear concepts like, health, disease, wellness, quality of life and social
determinants of health, and even though we use them, we normally don't understand the
depth of the meanings of the words we speak and define with each other.

We understand health like we understand a goal, something we all need and desire, but, what
does this mean? According to the WHO: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental
and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." but just as most
of the words the society has taken, they mean so much more. But to understand health in a
deply manner we need to speak about disease, when we talk about a disease we talk about
things we don't want in our lives, we've talked about struggle, and pain. There's something
about being sick that makes us get goosebumps, disease it's like a bump in the road of life,
and absence of health. of wellness, but what does wellness means? If health is a goal,
wellness is the pad to achieve that goal. wellness it's indeed a must, a day by day life that
attains you to better yourself in every aspect of your life. Wellness takes you to a quality of
life that gives you, health and comfort in which you do not lose, but win a better standard
with your mind and body, without a quality life, we are no more than lose tide, searching for
a way to not be lost, to find and answer, but we all need some guidance.

Its seems easy to talk about it and to put it on paper, but the things is that we all have social
determinants of health such as Income and social protection Education Unemployment and
job insecurity Working life conditions Food insecurity Housing, basic amenities and
environment that takes us to street of bumps and high speed ends. We are not alone in our
battle with health, we all struggle with ourselves and the determinants that make us.

There's been in history, tales and crimes about hardship ages that as society and globilace
world we have faced where we lost what it's more important, the wellness of our world. that
defines us and makes us who we are today.

The medical concept of disease has changed much throughout history and has allowed us to
understand the evolution and structure of the society. The diseases suffered by the population
are different depending on the time historical, economic, social and geographical. The causes
of death throughout history vary according to the different types of disease. Throughout
human history, life expectancy has changed from 25 years to our hunter ancestors, until the
77 of the present.

This evolution in hope life or decreased mortality has its explanation in the almost
elimination of deaths from infectious diseases, the main cause of death until the middle of the
century XVIII, improvement in nutrition and growth as well as the appearance of the first
Public Health measures in the middle of the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth and the
appearance of the running water, garbage removal the streets and the implementation of care
personnel from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth.
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Andrea Sofía Castillo Pérez A00573166
10/08/2022

Since 1930 mortality has been reduced thanks to medical advances, first the vaccine and
antibiotics and later the new therapies that characterize modern medicine.

But to evaluate this we will take three important stages of humanity, to analyze the progress
and difference between stages.

At the first stage we will see, the developments of Greek and Roman medicine stand out in
the Western world. Its developments were nourished by ancient pre-existing knowledge, such
as that of Persian and Chinese medicines. They formed a theoretical and practical cognitive
body that spanned the entire Middle Ages (from 476 AD to 1453). This theoretical-practical
body was linked with elements that came from the Islamic and Talmudic medicines that were
spread in the European continent. m In ancient Greece, those in charge of dealing with
matters related to health were the ASCLEPIAD, subject to the religious worship of the deity
of Asclepius (Aesculapius for the Romans) Aesculapius (Asclepius for the Greeks), Greek
god of medicine, responsible for the reestablishment of health, according to the different
myths is father, son or lover of Hygeia, goddess of health that represents the union of health,
of being well, of full daily life, with hygiene, practices, values ​and knowledge that
contributes to being well.

With time we saw changes, like from the end of the 15th century to the present, the health
sciences focused strictly on the clinic have been developed. Its object of study and work is
the disease and the individual disconnected from his social environment. This clinician is
exhausted in its biological, psychological, or psychological reality than from the 17th century,
other ways of understanding the Health-Illness process emerged, which materialized in the
developments of the medical police, the public health movement, social medicine and
epidemiology, which converge to give rise, at the beginning of the 20th century, to modern
Public Health. This disciplinary field is rapidly enriched by the incorporation of emerging
disciplines in the process like the development of the social sciences and human ecology. The
appearance of Community Psychology, of Health Psychology, and Health Psychology.
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Andrea Sofía Castillo Pérez A00573166
10/08/2022

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