health and disease - contemporary definitions. Dimensions of health. Health continuum. life cycle and health. Salutogenesis.
contemporary definitions:
- Health value is not fully understood until it is lost.
- Health is the essence of productive life and nor the result of ever increasing expenditure on medical care
- Health is intersectional
- A condition of the body or some part or organ of the body in which its functions are disrupted or deranged
- Health fluctuates within a range of states from optimum trough deferent levels of dysfunction towards the total dysfunction
- fundamental human right and a world-wide social goal; that it is essential to the satisfaction of basic human needs and to an improved quality of life
- “Health - this is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely an absence of disease or infirmity” (WHO)
- biomedical model: absence of disease —> found inadequate to solve some of the major health problems of making, afterwards—>
- Ecological concept: health as a dynamic equilibrium between man and his environment
Synthesis of all the above concepts—> holistic model: influenced by social, psychological, cultural, economic and political factors of the people concerned. —> health is both a biological and social phenomenon
Dimensions of health:
Physical- bodily aspect
Mental-cognitive aspect
Emotional- emotional state
Social - ability to make and maintain meaningful relationships with others
Health continuum:
- First imagined by Dr. John W. Travis in 1972
- is an illustration that draws a connection between the treatment paradigm and the wellness paradigm. where they meant in the middle is called neutral point. the further down the closer to death. the higher up, the greater your wellness level
- optimal health is reached once the dimensions of health (physical,mental,emotional,social) are fully fulfilled.
- most physicians only help a patient to get to the neutral zone (no clinical picture) from that point the person has to have a will and support system to obtain emotional,social and mental health.