Better Health for Individuals
Better Health for Individuals
* Identifies and examines why individuals give different meanings to health * Explains how a range of health behaviors affect an individual’s health * Describes how an individual’s health is determined by a range of factors * Evaluates aspects of health over which individuals can exert some control * Describes factors that contribute to effective health promotion * Proposes actions that can improve and maintain an individual’s health * Forms opinions about health-promoting actions based on a critical examination of relevant information * Uses a range of sources to draw conclusions about health and physical activity concepts
Meanings of Health * Definitions of health * Dimensions of health * Relative and dynamic nature of health
Definitions of health:There are many interpretations of what ‘health’ means. The W.H.O. originally defined health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease.The concept of heath is diverse and means different things to different people. This diversity can be recognized by considering the different meanings of health that have developed over time.Early meanings of health, it was generally viewed as the opposite of illness. This view of health suggested that if one is ill, medicine, drugs and doctors were able to return you in a healthy state. World Health Organization’s definition of health, ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. A weakness of this definition is that it fails to acknowledge that a person’s state of health is always changing. | Dimensions of health:A person’s level of health is the result of an interaction between different dimensions. A balance between all four dimensions is essential to produce general well-being and satisfaction. Physical health – the wellness of the body and the absence of chronic pain or discomfort.
* Identifies and examines why individuals give different meanings to health * Explains how a range of health behaviors affect an individual’s health * Describes how an individual’s health is determined by a range of factors * Evaluates aspects of health over which individuals can exert some control * Describes factors that contribute to effective health promotion * Proposes actions that can improve and maintain an individual’s health * Forms opinions about health-promoting actions based on a critical examination of relevant information * Uses a range of sources to draw conclusions about health and physical activity concepts
Meanings of Health * Definitions of health * Dimensions of health * Relative and dynamic nature of health
Definitions of health:There are many interpretations of what ‘health’ means. The W.H.O. originally defined health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease.The concept of heath is diverse and means different things to different people. This diversity can be recognized by considering the different meanings of health that have developed over time.Early meanings of health, it was generally viewed as the opposite of illness. This view of health suggested that if one is ill, medicine, drugs and doctors were able to return you in a healthy state. World Health Organization’s definition of health, ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. A weakness of this definition is that it fails to acknowledge that a person’s state of health is always changing. | Dimensions of health:A person’s level of health is the result of an interaction between different dimensions. A balance between all four dimensions is essential to produce general well-being and satisfaction. Physical health – the wellness of the body and the absence of chronic pain or discomfort.