🔻THE HEALTH-ILLNESS CONTINUUM 


The person's condition of wellbeing is one of persistent change. 

He moves to and fro from wellbeing to ailment and back to wellbeing once more. His condition is once in a while consistent. He may awaken feeling extraordinary, build up a cerebral pain early in the day, and feel fine again by early afternoon. 

The wellbeing ailment continuum (see figure 1-1) delineates this cycle of progress, wherein the individual encounters different conditions of wellbeing and disease (going from amazingly great wellbeing to death) that vacillate for the duration of his life. 

As we recently expressed, wellbeing, similarly as life itself, is an interaction of nonstop change. What's more, we should ceaselessly adjust to these adjustments in our lives to keep up great wellbeing and prosperity. It is our variation or reaction to that change, instead of the actual change, that influences our wellbeing. 

For instance, two understudies just got some answers concerning a major test tomorrow, for which they are totally ill-equipped. One understudy reacts to this distressing circumstance (stressor) by returning home, getting his books out, and beginning to examine. The other understudy breaks out into a perspiration, and burns through the vast majority of the evening worrying over this shock and envisioning what will befall him in the event that he doesn't finish the assessment. Presumably, this understudy is harming his wellbeing than is his companion. What's more, considering the time and energy he is consuming on stressing (and not examining), he may encounter much more pressure when they get their evaluations! 

Transformation and successful working, even within the sight of ongoing sickness, can be viewed as a condition of wellbeing. An individual might be in wonderful state of being, yet feel excessively drained and "blue" to go to work, while his collaborator, a diabetic, is grinding away, working completely and achieving his work. Which of these two individuals is at a more significant level on the wellbeing ailment continuum? 

NOTE: Death happens when variation flops totally, and there is irreversible harm to the body

🔻Models of health and illness.

Wellbeing is a condition of complete physical, social and mental prosperity 

also, not simply the shortfall of sickness or ailment. The pleasure in the 

most noteworthy achievable norm of wellbeing is one of the principal right of 

each individual, without qualification of race, religion, political convictions 

or then again financial and social conditions." (Source: World Health Organization 1948) 

SOCIAL MODEL OF HEALTH: This model rose up out of the social 

model of handicap, which has been emphatically pushed by the incapacity 

rights development. It was created as a response to the customary 

clinical model. The social model of wellbeing looks at all the components 

which add to wellbeing like social, social, political and the 

climate. A model is helpless lodging: see chart It is well 

reported that both pressure and low confidence can have a negative 

sway on wellbeing. "Low degrees of self-sufficiency and low confidence are 

liable to identify with more regrettable wellbeing." (Marmot, 2003) CDHN accepts that 

networks realize that their wellbeing is being influenced by an assortment of 

issues. We additionally accept that networks can and ought to be effectively 

associated with distinguishing, arranging, planning and carrying out arrangements 

to medical problems and vile wellbeing imbalances. 

www.cdhn.org COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 

Furthermore, HEALTH 

Clinical MODEL: Developed during the period of Enlightenment in the eighteenth Century, when the customary common 

sciences started to rule the scholarly community and clinical practice. The conviction that science could fix all sickness and illness has 

stayed a center component of present day medication. This idea of wellbeing might be more clear as it makes wellbeing an 

trait you can quantify essentially by deciding whether an infection is available or not. Anyway the solid accentuation on the 

nonappearance of infection as a marker of good wellbeing, and the overdependence because of clinical science in wellbeing, 

disregards the force of other significant impacts. 

BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL: Developed by therapist George Engel in 1977, and perceives that numerous variables influence 

wellbeing. It pays "express consideration regarding humanness" (Engel, 1997). It sees wellbeing as a logical develop and a social 

marvels. The model glances at the natural variables which influence wellbeing, like age, ailment, sex and so forth The 

mental elements: singular convictions and discernments. The social: the local area, the presence or nonattendance of connections 

"We endure when our relational bonds are divided and we feel comfort when they are restored" (Engel, 1997)