This essay will look at the various aspects of health by focusing on the definitions as portrayed in the work of Scriven, (2010) Smailes & Street (2010) and Larkins (2011) Firstly, it will look at the key definitions of health and the several aspects; physical, spiritual, emotional, social, mental and environmental, including well-being. Moving on to look at Scriven.. followed by Smailes & Street.. and finally Larkins…
The word health can mean many things to different people, for example (Aggleton, 1990:p1) believes that health is much more complicated than first thought, through looking at the holistic approach towards health. To an athlete, health may be depicted as physical fitness but to a person with a mental health disorder like schizophrenia, health could mean that they are able to distinguish their
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It is the assumption that most causes of disease, physical and mental can be understood biologically by learning about anatomy and physiology. The biomedical approach looks at disease and sickness as deviations in health and explains them in terms of their specifics or multiple causes by tracking the cause of the disease. Before the 1970’s, health was described as ‘the absence of disease’ in which the body functioned ‘normally,’ which is why all health workers were focused to treating the disabled and sick were health could be remediated or cured. This is what led to many people challenging of biomedicine and its affect on medical innovations as Fillian (1976) stated in his theory of iatrogenesis. Fillian believes that medical interventions, adverse reactions to medical treatment and hospital induced infections have a harmful and detrimental unnecessary effect to patients thus challenging others to raise their views on the approach and its link with mental