Health Sciences 2000A/B Chapter Notes -Preventive Healthcare, Health Promotion, World Health Organization
10 Feb 2014
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The world health organization needs to reconsider its definition of health pg. Disease condition of the body in which its structure or function is disturbed or deranged. Illness individual perception that one is suffering from a disease: limitations/criticisms. Difficulty of adapting it to emotional and psychiatric disorders. Also deemphasizes preventive medicine and ignores the social causes of diseases and social customs in defining disease. Social health of a society may refer to distribution of economic wealth and to other socio-economic factors: rand study (health insurance experiment) Study found the measures of physical, mental and social health to be valid and reliable in terms of acceptable measures in the field. Data did not confirm existence of social well-being as an independent dimension of health. Study concluded that social factors may directly affect health, but they are external factors and circumstances, which should not be used to define personal health status: limitations/criticisms. No consensus on the meaning of well-being in the definition.
