Understanding Health, Illness, and Wellbeing

This assignment explores the different ways health and illness can be conceptualized within the behavior of individuals. It discusses the influence of models and perspectives on health and illness, as well as the controversies and implications in the perspective of behavior and interpretations. The assignment also covers interventions and factors that influence human behavior regarding health, illness, and wellbeing.

Understanding health,
illness
And
Wellbeing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................................2
INTERVENTION............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
The health is defined as a state in which there is no disease occurs within mental social and
physical well-being. The wellness is defined as the process that occurs in making choices that
help in developing healthy life. The illness is refers to the poor state of body that includes unwell
and sick. In this assignment, there are various ways from which health and illness can be
conceptualized within the behavior of individuals (Raphael and Bryant, 2019). In addition to this,
influence of models regarding different perspective of health and illness are also covered in this.
Moreover, also includes controversies and implications in the perspective of behavior and
interpretations that help in understanding intervention of health and wellbeing.
BACKGROUND
The definition of health by WHO 1948 is defines as the complete state of social mental and
physical health. It stated that it is not refers to the absence of any illness. The holistic health is
defined as the approach to life from which the health of individuals can be considered by their
interaction with environment. The similarity between health and illness is that both are related to
the functioning of body (Atanasova and et. al., 2019). The difference between both is occur as
illness is defined as the disease that affect mind your body while health is a proper condition of
good mental and physical health.
There are different ways from which health and illness can be form within the behavior of
individuals and group member. These ways includes development of policies that help public to
maintain their healthy life. The occurrence of environment that provides support and promotion
to individuals from which they can enhance their health appropriately also includes in this. There
are different types of organization occur who provides strength to the action of community that
they are taking for enhancing health (Salloum and et. al., 2016). The health and illness can be
conceptualized with the help of developing personal skills within the behavior of individual so
that the can promote their health by considering the illness by their own. There is various health
services are present which provide appropriate sources to people from which they can reorient
their health. From these ways, the idea of health and illness can be promoted within the behavior
of group and individuals.
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There are different perspectives on health and illness occurs in the behavior of individuals
according to their recognition of healthy body. The perspective includes emotional mental and
physical health within the state of well-being. It occurs differently to individuals according to
their social and cultural belief. The culture belief cause and potential impact on perception of
health and illness is refers to the experience about illness and pain that is experienced by
patients. This occurs as believe within behavior of interval from which they make their
perspective regarding health and illness. The social factor plays important role in developing the
perspective of health and illness by causing the impact on the outcomes of health. It is related
with the daily activities of an individual including difficulties that they are facing due to their
illness. This factor also causes information and education regarding health and less from which
the perspective within the behavior of individuals develop.
The health belief model helps in understanding the behavior of health within the individuals.
Within this, there are different factors are included that help in identifying behavior in
individuals. This model has six construct which are risks susceptibility, perceive severity, actions
of benefits, barriers, self-efficacy and cues to action. This model is important in influencing the
health and illness among individual because it help in analyzing the changes that has come up
with the behavior of individuals (Routledge, 2018). It also helps in analyzing the belief towards
health in individuals.
The occurrence of different perspectives can develop controversies from which various
difficulties can be come up with the implication of health and wellbeing within the behavior of
individuals. This can develop various issues from which the health can be affected of individuals.
It becomes difficult to communicate with people who have different perspective of health which
develop various controversies within their health and wellbeing. From this various possible
implications can be occur that result in development of Idea and belief from which the health can
promoted among individuals.
INTERVENTION
There are different interpretation can used that help in influencing the behavior of human
regarding health, illness and well-being. It includes culture, environment, society, location,
response and stimulus that help in influencing the human behavior. As human are highly
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associated with these interpretation that cause potential impact on their behavior. From these
factors, it plays major role within the development of individuals that help in determine their
ability to learn from environment about health and well-being. This also causes the attribute and
attitude from which the behavior of individuals can be change. The each factor plays their role in
enhancing the behavior in individuals (Pegram and Goddard, 2018). The information about
health and illness also assist in influencing the behavior within group and individuals. From this,
people tend to take decision about their illness and health from which they can maintain their
well-being properly by performing healthy activities within their daily life. The occurrence of
proper services regarding health and illness also help in influencing the human behavior.
Moreover, it helps in influencing the perspective and believe from which behavior of health in
individual can be promoted with different manners. The health of individuals can be maintain
from these properly by determine factors that cause potential impact on them.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that there are different perspective occur with
the behavior of individual that help in promoting the health and wellbeing within their health. In
order to analyze their behavior the health model help in determining it. The different ways occur
from which idea of health and illness can be develop within the behavior of group and
individuals. The each individual has different perspective regarding health and illness which is
developed by the impact of culture and social belief. From this, group and individuals maintain
and promote their health by applying this with their daily activities.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Atanasova, D., and et. al., 2019. Mental health and the media: From illness to
wellbeing. Sociology Compass. 13(5). p.e12678.
Pegram, A. and Goddard, K., 2018. Physical health for people with mental health illness:
Meeting the challenge. British Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 7(2). pp.81-84.
Raphael, D. and Bryant, T., 2019. Political Economy Perspectives on Health and Health
Care. Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, p.61.
Routledge, K., 2018. Understanding wellbeing: its role in mental illness and cognition, and ways
it can be promoted.
Salloum, I.M., and et. al., 2016. Health status: From illness to wellbeing. In Person centered
psychiatry (pp. 157-164). Springer, Cham.
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