SPECTRUM OF HEALTH

1. SPECTRUM OF
HEALTH
DR. MAHESWARI JAIKUMAR.
maheswarijaikumar2103@gmail.com

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

4. • 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.

5. • 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 is often gradual &
where one state ends other state
begins.

6. • 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.

7. • 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.

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

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