Concepts of health and well being

 Health

• Health means different things to different people
• Health is the absence of disease
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Ill Health

• Physical or mental
• An individual unable to function properly without pain



Illness

• sick
• poor health

Disease

• Long term
• Diagnostic label given to symptoms and signs

stress

•  stress can be a short term physical response
• stress can be positive and exhilarating
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stress related illness

• Ashma
• Migranes
• Reduced vision
• Depression
• anxiety
• storke

Mental Health

• A positive subject suggesting the abcence of mental illness
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mental illness

• mental illness can be charaterised by abnormal behaviour
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