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Patterns of health and disease change over time. What are the reasons behind these changes? Defining terms is always a problem in the social sciences, particularly in the field of health
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Patterns of health and disease change over time. What are the reasons behind these changes? Defining terms is always a problem in the social sciences, particularly in the field of health. There is a raft of popular terms concerning health and ill-heath. For instance, people talk about being healthy, fit, poorly, 'one degree under', low, below par, diseased, even 'sick as a parrot'. Amazingly, we often seem to know what we are each talking about! Additionally, health professionals nay use the same terms in a different way from lay people. To try to minimise confusion, I have used the medical view of health common definition as "state of being well, without disease". According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), health is 'a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity'. In this view we are suffering from ill-health when we fall short...
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