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Health (WHO Definition 1946) A state of complete physical, mental, and social
well-being and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity
Health (Frankish et. al 1996) The capacity of people to adapt to, respond to, or
control life's challenges and changes
"Functional Definition"
Disease The biological or physical malady affecting the
body
Sickness Social acknowledgement of impairment of
affliction
Illness Perception of dysfunction by an afflicting individual
,The Relationships: Disease Without Hypertension
Ilness
- HBP can lead to heart attack but patient does not
feel ill and does not seek care
The Relationships: Ilness without Hypochondriac (anxiety)
Disease
Feeling of being ill, but nothing wrong despite
extensive medical testing
The Relationships: Ilness without Headache
Sickness
Feeling of being ill, requires doctor's note for
absense
Health and Disease - Not necessarily opposites
Disease (Yes)
Healthy well managed type 1 diabetic
Unhealthy late stage cancer
Healthy vibrant neighbour
Unhealthy overworked teacher
Disease (No)
Factors that cause disease 1. germs
2. genetics
3. lifestyle
4. multifactorial disease (epigenetics,
environmental)
,Factors that cause disease: germs - prominent in the 19th century
1. Kach
- germs are in diseased individuals and are absent
in the rest, they can be isolated/cultured, germs
cause disease in healthy hosts, and germs can be
re-isolated from newly diseased (ignores social
context + genetic origins)
2. Lister
- sepsis (infection) caused by pollen-like dust
containing surgical wounds, antiseptics (carboxylic
acid) should prevent wound infections (surgical
mortality 45%->15%)
3. Pasteur
- first pastuated germ theory of disease, principals
on microbial fermentation + sterilization, described
heat treatment of milk/wine "pasteurization"
Factors that cause disease: genetics - interplay between genetics and environment
1. emphasizes hereditary vulnerability
2. focuses on individual, not society
Factors that cause disease: lifestyle - behaviourally-driven
- smoking, alcohol, fatty foods
- emphasizes individual behaviour change
Factors that cause disease: - epigenetics: specific gene ↑ risk of a disease (ex.
multifactorial disease (epigenetics, BRCA and breast cancer
environmental) - not completely deterministic
- environmental trigger needed
- necessary, but not sufficient
, Well-being and wellness Well-being: broader concept, encompasses many
areas of life
- ex. learning, financial security, social participation,
work, family life, leisure, environ, security, housing
- state of feeling well (not ill or sick)
- not generally a synonym of being "healthy"
Population Health - health can be understood at the population level;
groups with shared characteristics
- health outcomes of a group of individuals,
including the distribution of such outcomes within
the group
- studies health outcomes, patterns of health
determinants, and policies that link these two
Epidemiology the study of the distribution and determinants of
disease in populations
- Distribution: descriptive epidemiology focus, how
specific outcomes are patterned in a population,
essential for etiology (origins) of disease
- Determinants: analytical epidemiology focus,
anything that influences the health of an individual
and the distribution of health states in a population
Population Health: Fundamental - diseases distribute non-randomly in a population
Assumptions in relation to the factors that determine health
- factors can be identified by studying distributions
of health outcomes in a population
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Terms in this set (120)
Health (WHO Definition 1946) A state of complete physical, mental, and social
well-being and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity
Health (Frankish et. al 1996) The capacity of people to adapt to, respond to, or
control life's challenges and changes
"Functional Definition"
Disease The biological or physical malady affecting the
body
Sickness Social acknowledgement of impairment of
affliction
Illness Perception of dysfunction by an afflicting individual
,The Relationships: Disease Without Hypertension
Ilness
- HBP can lead to heart attack but patient does not
feel ill and does not seek care
The Relationships: Ilness without Hypochondriac (anxiety)
Disease
Feeling of being ill, but nothing wrong despite
extensive medical testing
The Relationships: Ilness without Headache
Sickness
Feeling of being ill, requires doctor's note for
absense
Health and Disease - Not necessarily opposites
Disease (Yes)
Healthy well managed type 1 diabetic
Unhealthy late stage cancer
Healthy vibrant neighbour
Unhealthy overworked teacher
Disease (No)
Factors that cause disease 1. germs
2. genetics
3. lifestyle
4. multifactorial disease (epigenetics,
environmental)
,Factors that cause disease: germs - prominent in the 19th century
1. Kach
- germs are in diseased individuals and are absent
in the rest, they can be isolated/cultured, germs
cause disease in healthy hosts, and germs can be
re-isolated from newly diseased (ignores social
context + genetic origins)
2. Lister
- sepsis (infection) caused by pollen-like dust
containing surgical wounds, antiseptics (carboxylic
acid) should prevent wound infections (surgical
mortality 45%->15%)
3. Pasteur
- first pastuated germ theory of disease, principals
on microbial fermentation + sterilization, described
heat treatment of milk/wine "pasteurization"
Factors that cause disease: genetics - interplay between genetics and environment
1. emphasizes hereditary vulnerability
2. focuses on individual, not society
Factors that cause disease: lifestyle - behaviourally-driven
- smoking, alcohol, fatty foods
- emphasizes individual behaviour change
Factors that cause disease: - epigenetics: specific gene ↑ risk of a disease (ex.
multifactorial disease (epigenetics, BRCA and breast cancer
environmental) - not completely deterministic
- environmental trigger needed
- necessary, but not sufficient
, Well-being and wellness Well-being: broader concept, encompasses many
areas of life
- ex. learning, financial security, social participation,
work, family life, leisure, environ, security, housing
- state of feeling well (not ill or sick)
- not generally a synonym of being "healthy"
Population Health - health can be understood at the population level;
groups with shared characteristics
- health outcomes of a group of individuals,
including the distribution of such outcomes within
the group
- studies health outcomes, patterns of health
determinants, and policies that link these two
Epidemiology the study of the distribution and determinants of
disease in populations
- Distribution: descriptive epidemiology focus, how
specific outcomes are patterned in a population,
essential for etiology (origins) of disease
- Determinants: analytical epidemiology focus,
anything that influences the health of an individual
and the distribution of health states in a population
Population Health: Fundamental - diseases distribute non-randomly in a population
Assumptions in relation to the factors that determine health
- factors can be identified by studying distributions
of health outcomes in a population
