Concept of Health and Disease Overview

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Which concept emphasizes the need for harmony between man and his environment to attain health?

  • Biopsychosocial concept of health
  • Psychosocial concept of health
  • One health
  • Holistic concept of health (correct)

Which concept of health focuses on the biological factors influencing health?

  • Biomedical (correct)
  • Ecological
  • Biopsychosocial
  • Psychosocial

How is disease defined from an ecological perspective?

  • A state of social dysfunction
  • Any deviation from normal functioning or state of complete physical or mental well-being
  • A condition in which the health of the body is impaired
  • A maladjustment of the human organism to the environment (correct)

According to the biomedical concept, how was health traditionally defined?

<p>As the absence of disease (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the term 'illness' refer to according to the text?

<p>The individual's perceptions and behavior in response to a disease (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What theory does the biomedical concept of health take its origins from?

<p>Germ theory of disease (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which historical theory of disease causation believed in supernatural causes?

<p>Karma Theory (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does the biomedical concept view the human body?

<p>As a machine (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what way is 'sickness' defined according to the text?

<p>A state of social dysfunction (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which factor is NOT considered by the biomedical concept of health?

<p>Social factors (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which concept defines health as beyond the biomedical sphere and influenced by various social, cultural, mental, emotional, and spiritual factors?

<p>Psychosocial concept of health (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In addition to biological factors, what other factors contribute to health according to the text?

<p>Psychological factors (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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