HE ED110 Lecture Notes - Biology Of Depression, Job Satisfaction, Quality Of Life
7 Jan 2019
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Health: is elusive to define and ways of thinking about the term health" have evolved over the years. Keeps evolving over time, every definition is different and has a different background behind it. You were considered healthy if you weren"t ill or sick: holistic model. Not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. More than just mortality (death rates and causes) but also concerned with morbidity (illness rates and their causes) statistics. Applied to a population, the model would again either sum appropriate individual indicators, or would record measures of the well-being of the population as a whole: wellness model. Developed through the who health promotion initiative in 1984 where a. Who discussion document proposed moving away from viewing health as a state, toward a dynamic model that presented it as a process or a force. Wellness was again amplified in the 1986 ottawa charter for health.
