SPECTRUM OF HEALTH

SPECTRUM OF HEALTH

1. SPECTRUM OF HEALTH DR. MAHESWARI JAIKUMAR. [email protected]

2. SPECTRUM OF HEALTH POSITIVE HEALTH BETTER HEALTH FREEDOM FROM SICKNESS UNRECOGNIZED SICKNESS MILD SICKNESS SEVERE SICKNESS DEATH

3. Health & disease lie along a continuum, & there is no single cut off point. The lowest point on the health-disease spectrum is death & the highest point corresponds to the WHO definition of positive health.

4. Health fluctuates within a range of optimal well being to various levels of dysfunction, including the state of total dysfunction, namely death. The transition from optimum health to ill health of often gradual & where one state ends other state begins.

5. The spectrum concept of health emphasizes that the health of an individual is not static; is a dynamic phenomenon & a process of continuous change, subject to frequent subtle variations. What is considered maximum may be considered minimum tomorrow.

6. A person may function at maximum levels of health today & may be minimum tomorrow. It implies that health is a state not to be attained once & for all, but ever to be renewed. There are degrees or “levels of health” as there are severity of illness.

7. As long as we are alive there is some degree of health in us

8. THANK YOU