Social Construction Of Health

In construction with this assignment the writer will read and research the appropriate literature, exemplifying their knowledge on health and to support the rationales in this work.
Health
According to the World Health Organisation (1948) the definition of health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. There are also three specific types of health; physical health, emotional health and mental health. Physical health is connected to mental and emotional health. Taking care of your body is an important first step towards mental and emotional health. The mind and the body are linked. For example, exercise not only strengthens our heart and lungs, but also releases endorphins,
There are three main stages in health care; primary, secondary and tertiary care. Primary health care refers to the work of health professionals who act as first point of consultation for all patients within the health care system and is ‘essential health care’ that is based on scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology, which make the universal health care more accessible to people in the community (Wikipedia, 2015). Primary health care usually occurs before an illness to prevent it from happening. Secondary health care is the health care services provided by medical specialists and other health care professionals who generally do not have first contact with the patient, for example, cardiologists (Wikipedia, 2015). Tertiary care is specialized consultative health care, usually for inpatients and on referral from a primary or secondary health care stage, to a facility that has individualised care for advanced medical treatments, such as cancer management (Wikipedia, 2015). There are many alternative concepts of health. In biomedicine, health is said to be the absence of disease whereas in alternative medicine health is portrayed to be a balance of opposing
From this scenario Mary Smyth is a 35 year old Irish woman living and working as an investment banker in London. She has recently broken up with her long term boyfriend and lives alone in an apartment complex in North London. Mary smokes 25 cigarettes a day and most evenings enjoys a glass of wine after a long day at work. She is under considerable pressure at work and takes recreational drugs on occasion. She rarely cooks and has most of her meals outside her home. Recently, several of her have moved out of