CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: World Health Organization, Biomedical Model, Phlegm
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Health is a continuum, influenced by many factors and consisting of domains of having", doing", and. Lay theories (responses of people with serious illnesses: general sense of well-being -> feeling, absence of symptoms of disease -> symptom orientation, being able to do things that a physically fit person is able to do -> performance. World health organisation (who) definition: state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. Illness caused by evil spirits in the body -> trephination (holes in skull) to release them. Imbalance between four bodily fluids/ humours (yellow bile (summer), phlegm (winter), blood (spring), black bile (autumn)) caused by external. Pathogens" = illness: hippocrates: belief that mind and body are connected, and hence humours cause personality, galen: belief that temperaments could contribute towards illness. Middle ages health thought to be tied to religion/ god. Idea of dualism (mind and body separate from one another) introduced;
