DEFINITION
• “HEALTH IS A STATE OF COMPLETE
PHYSICAL, MENTAL, AND SOCIAL WELL
BEING AND NOT MERELY AN ABSENCE OF
DISEASE OR INFIRMITY”
• W.H.O

CONCEPTS OF HEALTH
HEALTH
BIOMEDICAL
ECOLOGICAL
PSYCHO
SOCIAL
HOLISTIC

BIOMEDICAL CONCEPT
• Absence of disease
• If one was free from disease then the person was
considered healthy.
• Based on germ theory of disease.
• Criticism:
– Minimized role of environmental, social, psychological and
cultural determinants of health.

ECOLOGICAL CONCEPT
• Health as a dynamic equilibrium between man
and his environment.
• Disease as a maladjustment of the human
organism to environment.

PSYCHO SOCIAL CONCEPT
• Health is influenced by social, psychological,
cultural and political factors.

HOLISTIC CONCEPT
PHYSICAL
MENTAL
SOCIAL
ENVIRONM
ENTAL
ECONOMIC
AL

DIMENSIONS OF HEALTH
PHYSICAL
MENTAL
SOCIAL
SPRITUAL
EMOTIONAL
VOCATIONAL