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Social-ecological model of health - ANS ✔✔a comprehensive developmental approach. Is useful
for promoting health at the individual, family, community, and societal level
Clinical model of health - ANS ✔✔The absence of signs and symptoms of disease
Eudemonistic model of health - ANS ✔✔Emphasizes the interaction between physical, social,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of life.
High-level wellness - ANS ✔✔involves progression towards a higher level of functioning, an
open-ended and ever-expanding future with its challenge of fuller potential and integration of
the whole being. It emphasizes the interrelationship between the environment and the ability
to achieve health on both a personal and societal level
Illness - ANS ✔✔comprised of the subjective experience of the individual and the physical
manifestations of disease
Disease - ANS ✔✔the failure of a person's adaptive mechanisms to counteract stimuli and
stresses adequately, resulting in functional or structural disturbances. "without ease"
Health promotion - ANS ✔✔any planned combination of educational, political, regulatory, and
organizational support of action and conditions of living conducive to healthy individuals,
groups, or communities
Primary disease prevention - ANS ✔✔considered health protection when they emphasize
shielding or defending the body from specific causes for injury or disease. Ex. vaccines