Health, Wellness, and Illness: Conceptualization and Perspectives

This report explores the conceptualization of health, wellness, and illness, and discusses different perspectives on these topics. It also examines the impact of social and cultural ideas on health and illness. The report highlights the importance of taking necessary actions for maintaining good health and provides insights into various models of health.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Health and wellness is very important part of human being as it support in increasing person
ability to live their lives. This can be describe the state in which a person is completely fit to
perform their day to day activities (White, 2016). Health person does not have any disease of
illness which can affect their living standards. It is crucial for an person to take necessary actions
and steps which support in living a better and healthy life. This report will include different
elements related to health, wellness and illness. In this different range of ways are determined in
which health and illness are conceptualised. Several perspective of health and illness are
considered with consideration of social and cultural ideas. Apart from this various models of
health is also determined.
BACKGROUND
According to World Health Organisation, Health can be define as the physical, mental
and social well being state of a person which have absence of diseases or any kind of infirmity.
In other words health can be describe as the condition is which a person is completely fit and fine
internally and externally. Definition of wellness can be understand as the state of a person in
which they are called health person. Wellness refer as the process in which individual is more
aware of making good choices towards their health and full filling life. Well being definition
includes the experience of a healthy, happy as well as prosperity in life. Individual well being
consist of good mental along with this high level of life satisfaction, sense of meaning as well as
capability of a person to mange it strength. Where as illness can be define as the unhealthy
condition of a person. This is the unhealthy or poor health state of a person which affect their day
to day activities and impact over their personal and professional career.
Traditional concept of health was completely focused on disease free represents. As
person health condition can be understand through the disease they are dealing with. Traditional
a person is considered to be a health person when they do not have any disease or issues internal
and externally (Taylor, 2015). As compare to today’s time a person is considered to be health
when they are able to conduct their day to day activities actively and efficiently. There are ranges
of ways through which an individual behaviour and group behaviour is influences as the
conceptualisation of health and illness. It is crucial for a person to take correct and appropriate
steps for being a health person. It has been determined that illness in a person lead to impact in
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their capability and behaviour. Most of the time a ill or sick person is frustrated and irritated as
well as they are not able to give their full capabilities to their task and activities. This will lead to
increase in negative attitude of a person towards life and other person.
There are different perspective of health and illness and this will lead to have significant
impact over social and cultural ideas as well as beliefs of a person behaviour. These perspective
of person is classified into three parts such as functionalism perspective, conflict theory
perspective and symbolic interactionism (Creamer and Austin, 2017). In this functionalism
perspective refer as the good health as well as effective medical care of a person which is crucial
for performing smooth and functional activities of society. In case of illness, it is responsibility
of physical to provide appropriate instruction to patient and these instruction should be followed
by person. Where as conflicts theory state that the major characteristic of health care and quality
of health is social inequality. All those people who are from disadvantaged social backgrounds
are tend to be more ill and they receive inadequate health care. Well, through the perspective of
symbolic interactionism it can be determined that health and illness both are construction of
social. It state that physical and mental condition lead to have little of or objective realty where
as instead they are considered as condition of health and illness.
The holistic view of health and wellbeing can be describe as the approach of wellbeing
that is considered by analysing how a person is able to function is their specific environment
instead of focussing on any singular competence, pathology or any disability of a person. There
are various issues and difference between well being and illness. Well being is considered as the
state of condition in which a person is physical and mentally fit. Where as in the case of illness a
person in unhealthy and not fit or fine. In welling a person is not dealing with any issues or
diseases. As care to illness a person is dealing with some kind of problem or disease or may be
sick. Biomedical model is one of the effective model that is used by physician in the process of
diagnosing diseases (Rolland, 2019). This model includes three core elements such as a person
is consider to be health when they are free from any type of disease, pain as well as able to make
more human activities. This model is completely focusing of physical process only which
includes pathology, biochemistry and along with this physiology. Where as well being is
focusing on different aspects which is related to physical body, mental and mind of an
individual. The major similarity between both of this approaches includes the health and
wellness of individuals.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that health, well being are very important for a
person as this assist in proper functioning of human body. Illness is a state or condition of a
person in which they are unhealthy. Health and illness of a person will have affect the behaviour
and capability to perform day to day task.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals
White, K., 2016. An introduction to the sociology of health and illness. Sage.
Taylor, S.E., 2015. Health psychology. McGraw-Hill Education.
Creamer, A.M. and Austin, W., 2017. Canadian nurse practitioner core competencies
identified: An opportunity to build mental health and illness skills and knowledge. The Journal
for Nurse Practitioners, 13(5), pp.e231-e236.
Rolland, J.S., 2019. Families, health, and illness. Handbook of health social work,
pp.331-357.
Baliatsas, C., van Kamp, I., Swart, W., Hooiveld, M. and Yzermans, J., 2016. Noise
sensitivity: Symptoms, health status, illness behavior and co-occurring environmental
sensitivities. Environmental research, 150, pp.8-13.
Rapport, F. and Wainwright, P., 2016. The self in health and illness: patients,
professionals and narrative identity. CRC Press.
Duggan, A. and Street Jr, R.L., 2015. Interpersonal communication in health and
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