Nursing NUR101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Fall Prevention, Food Security, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
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The nature of health revolves around its relationship with disease, illness, and wellness. However, health is either defined to be positive or negative. When negatively defined, health is the absence of disease and, along with illness, it is represented on a continuum, where maximum health is at one end and death at the other. When positively defined, health and illness are viewed to be distinct, but interrelated concepts. The terms illness and disease are used interchangeably. Some suggest that illness is a subjective experience of loss of health, while others argue that disease is an objective state of ill health; the pathological process of which can be detected by medical science. Beyond disease, the definition of health includes the following: physical, social, and spiritual health. Some considered the above to be a broad definition of health and that it is synonymous with wellness.
