WHAT DO PEOPLE MEAN BY HEALTH?
6 dimensions * Social health * Intellectual health (self esteem) * Physical health * Emotional health * Environmental health * Spiritual health (morals) WHAT ARE SOME FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE OUR HEALTH ? * Individual - how you treat yourself * Interpersonal - relationships * Environmental - air quality * Health care - e.g. indigenous people have no access to health care * Community - service and resources available * Intellectual - self esteem The concept of Holistic (whole, equal balance) health suggests that physical, mental, social and spiritual aspects of life are all important for a persons health. Health is maintaining a holistic lifestyle consisting the 6 dimensions: social, intellectual, physical, emotional, environmental, and spiritual. RELATIVE AND DYNAMIC NATURE OF HEALTH ;
Good health implies the achievement of a dynamic balance between individuals or groups and their environment. Individuals - improved quality of life, less sickness and disability, a happier person, family and social community
Good health implies more than just longevity (long life) or the absences of disease but also quality of life. Health is relative ourselves and others and dynamic aspects of health are continually changing example break your leg PERCEPTIONS OF HEALTH Health perceptions are subjective ratings by an individual or his, her health status. People say their healthy despite suffering from one or more chronic disease. Each person has a perception of their own health that is how healthy they think they are The way you look is the way you will look to other people
e.g
Fat = suffers from weight problems
Muscly = fit
Quiet = social, emotional
Pale = drained physical
IMPLICATIONS OF DIFFERENT PERCEPTIONS OF HEALTH