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</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</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

    Which historical theory of disease causation believed in supernatural causes?

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

    How does the biomedical concept view the human body?

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

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

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

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

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

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