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    The document discusses the spectrum of health, ranging from positive health to freedom from sickness to unrecognized sickness to mild sickness to severe sickness to death. It notes that health and disease exist on a continuum, and there is no single cutoff point between them. Health fluctuates within a range from optimal well-being to various levels of dysfunction and total dysfunction (death). The transition between health and illness is often gradual, and where optimal health ends, ill health begins.

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    The document discusses the spectrum of health, ranging from positive health to freedom from sickness to unrecognized sickness to mild sickness to severe sickness to death. It notes that health and disease exist on a continuum, and there is no single cutoff point between them. Health fluctuates within a range from optimal well-being to various levels of dysfunction and total dysfunction (death). The transition between health and illness is often gradual, and where optimal health ends, ill health begins.

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    SPECTRUM OF

    HEALTH

    DR. MAHESWARI JAIKUMAR.


    maheswarijaikumar2103@gmail.com
    SPECTRUM OF HEALTH
    POSITIVE HEALTH

    BETTER HEALTH

    FREEDOM FROM SICKNESS

    UNRECOGNIZED SICKNESS

    MILD SICKNESS

    SEVERE SICKNESS

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

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