Year 1: Tutorial 2

Question 1

What is the WHO definition of health ?

Answer 1

A state of complete physical and social well-being and ot merely the absence of disease.

Question 2

What is a cultural approach to normal ?

Answer 2

What is defined normal will depend on expectations and standards of the society and on the political and economical as well as social factors.

Question 3

What is the statistical approach to normal ?

Answer 3

The normal “shape of distribution” of a population as told on a bell curve.

Question 4

What are the 5 positive/holistic views of health ?

Answer 4

Health as an ideal state
Health as physical and mental fitness.
Health as a commodity.
Health as personal strength or ability.
Health as the basis for personal potential .