U11.1: The Concept of Health

Question 1

state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of diseases and infirmity (WHO)

Answer 1

Health

Question 2

T/F:
Understanding the concept of health is the basis in health care.

Answer 2

T

Question 3

4 concepts of health

Answer 3

1. biomedical concept
2. ecological concept
3. psychosocial concept
4. holistic concept

Question 4

What concept of health:
merely the absence of disease

Answer 4

Biomedical Concept

Question 5

What concept of health:
If the person is sick, he is considered healthy.

Answer 5

Biomedical Concept

Question 6

What concept of health:
Human body = machine

Answer 6

Biomedical Concept

Question 7

What concept of health:
Has minimized the role of the environment, social, and cultural determinants of health

Answer 7

Biomedical Concept

Question 8

What concept of health:
Experts viewed health as a dynamic equilibrium between the human body and the environment.

Answer 8

Ecological Concept

Question 9

What concept of health:
Disease: maladjustment between the human body and the environment

Answer 9

Ecological Concept

Question 10

What concept of health:
Experts viewed health as a dynamic equilibrium between the human body and the environment.

Answer 10

Ecological Concept

Question 11

What concept of health:
Regard health as both a biological and social phenomenon

Answer 11

Psychosocial Concept

Question 12

What concept of health:
Takes into consideration the social, psychological, cultural, economic, and political factors

Answer 12

Psychosocial Concept

Question 13

What concept of health:
Synthesis of all the other concepts

Answer 13

Holistic Concept

Question 14

What concept of health:
Recognizes the strength of social, economic, political, and environmental aspects

Answer 14

Holistic Concept

Question 15

What concept of health:
Well-being as a whole

Answer 15

Holistic Concept

Question 16

What concept of health:
Emphasis is on the promotion and preservation of health

Answer 16

Holistic Concept

Question 17

illness

a. individual
b. community
c. doctor

Answer 17

a. individual

Question 18

sickness

a. individual
b. community
c. doctor

Answer 18

b. community

Question 19

disease

a. individual
b. community
c. doctor

Answer 19

c. doctor

Question 20

Subjective state of a person who feels not to be well

Answer 20

Illness

Question 21

A broad term that defines the poor state of mind, body, and spirit

Answer 21

Illness

Question 22

The general feeling of being sick or unwell

Answer 22

Illness

Question 23

Ambiguous symptoms

Answer 23

Illness

Question 24

Condition of being ill

Answer 24

Sickness

Question 25

Related to a different phenomenon which the social role a person with illness or sickness takes or is given in society, in different arenas of life

Answer 25

Sickness

Question 26

Viewed as suffering, curse, or punishment for sins before

Answer 26

Disease

Question 27

Medicine has studied disease in terms of?

Answer 27

1. disturbance of bodily homeostasis 2. morphological changes of internal organs 3. morphological changes in tissues and cells 4. irritation of organs and their actions, reactions (physiological) 5. invasion of the body by an external contagion 6. genetic alteration

Question 28

A channel to better understand the body's capabilities, interactions, and limitations

Answer 28

Disease

Question 29

means "without ease" (uneasiness). when something is wrong with bodily function

Answer 29

Disease

Question 30

refers to the presence of a specific disease, and also to individual's perceptions and behavior in response to the disease, as well as the impact of that disease on the psychosocial environment

Answer 30

Illness

Question 31

refers to a state of social dysfunction

Answer 31

Sickness

Question 32

A person's subjective experience of their symptoms; what the patient brings to the doctor

Answer 32

Illness

Question 33

Underlying pathology; biologically defined; the practitioner's perspective

Answer 33

Disease

Question 34

The illness seen in terms of a theory of disorder

Answer 34

Disease

Question 35

Social and cultural conceptions of this condition: cultural beliefs and reactions such as fear or rejection; these affect how the patient reacts

Answer 35

Sickness

Question 36

Covers what is considered a disorder suitable for medical treatment

Answer 36

Sickness