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Clinical Model
● Provides the narrowest interpretation of
health
● People viewed as physiologic systems
● Health identified by the absence of signs
and symptoms of disease or injury
● State of not being “sick”
● Opposite of health is disease or injury
● Environment.
● Standards of living. Reflecting
occupation, income, and education.
● Family and cultural beliefs. Patterns of
daily living and lifestyle to offspring(
children).
● Social support networks. Family, friends, or
confidant (best friend) and job satisfaction
helps people avoid illness.
Health Care
Adherence
● Adherence (obedience) : is the extent
to
which an individual's
behavior for medications,
example, taking
diets or making lifestyle following
changes. Degree
of adherence may range from
disregarding (ignoring) every aspect of the
recommendations to following the total
therapeutic plan.
Illness and Disease
Illness
● Is a highly personal state in which
the person's physical, emotional,
intellectual, social, developmental, or
spiritual functioning is thought to be
diminished. Illness is usually
associated with disease but may
occur independently of it. Illness is a
highly personal state in which the
person feels unhealthy or ill.
● Disease
● Disease can be described as an
alteration in body functions resulting in a
reduction of capacities or shortening of the
normal life span.
● The causation of a disease is called
its etiology.
There are many ways to classify
illness and disease: