There are different models concerning health and illness.The term health, and illness, is concepts that are subject to continuous change and frequent
... [Show More] evaluation. Change means to be or cause to be different, or to alter the course of an experience. Change occurs naturally and can be induced experimentally or clinically.WHO definition links health with well-being and visualized health as a human right that requires physical and social resource to maintain. Well-being refers to a positive state of being comfortable, healthy or happy that improves the quality of life rather than neutral state. Health and well-being is differed from an individual to the next, depending on the circumstances and their needs.
Examination of Health-illness Continuum
Health-illness Continuum of Care is a general notion that involve a system which guides and tracks patients gradually through a universal health services over all levels and stage of care and it may refer to care provided from birth to end of life.The health-illness continuum examination and its relation to the human experience help the individual to know about the significance of adjustment to maintain health and well-being. The Illness-Wellness Continuum is consider as preventive and promotion level of treatment, which improves wellness before th individual begins to presents with signs or symptoms of disease ,it also teaches people to stay away from factors that poses as threat to their health, such as factors that cause disease and premature death.World Health Organization (WHO) defined health as the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (WHO, 2018). Every-one defines health based on their feeling.Illness is also very individualistic.
Responsibility for health is seen as individual rather than collective, only the person can speak out if their health is depreciating spiritually, physically, developmentally, Mentally, Socially and
the Environmental health which include air, water, and food people eat are they safe and clean? Illness is a subjective word referring to individual’s experience of mental and physical sensations or and may not necessarily indicate the presence of disease.
Health is what human-being experience, is not a list of scientific diagnoses. Within this human experience is the ultimate life experience of liveliness which is feeling of being alive and full of vigor. An individual can be drained when there is loss in liveliness, and this affect physical health and psychological well-being. Liveliness is viewed as a psychological state and also a physical state of bodily functioning (Schlinkert & Koole, 2017).
Wellness is a state of positive thoughts that is full of energy and new ideas that is characterized by constant change, well-being involve daily decision-making in every area concerning the individual well-being. It requires that the individual continue to maintain a continuum of equilibrium and a determined direction within the surroundings where he or she is functioning. Wellness is a subjective perception of stability, harmony and vitality. Health and illness are opposite ends of the health continuum, a person condition can progress from high level of health to good health, to poor health to extreme poor health or even to death. [Show Less]