health and health concepts

1. INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH
DR. NAIF IZZATULLAH ABDULJABBAR
MBBS
MSc of public health

2. • Definition Of Preventive Medicine
• Definition Of Public Health
• Definition Of Community Medicine
• The Main Branches Of Community Medicine
• Definition Of Health By WHO
• Concept Of Health
• Holistic Health Dimensions And Health Dimensions
• Social Determinants Of Health
Table of contents

3. Preventive Medicine
is a medical science focuses on the health of
individuals and populations in order to protect,
promote, and maintain health and well-being, and
to prevent disease, disability, and pre-mature
death.

4. Public Health
The “science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and
promoting health and efficiency, through organized community
effort for the sanitation of the environment, control of
communicable infections, education of the individual in personal
hygiene, organization of medical and nursing services for the
early diagnosis and preventive treatment”

5. Community Medicine came in to existence when the Royal College of
Physicians, London, decided to change its faculty of Public Health to faculty
of Community Medicine in 1969-70. Immediately in many countries,
including Sudan, the name Public Health was changed to Community
Medicine.
Community Medicine

6. Main branches
of Community
Medicine
Preventive
Medicine
1. Epidemiology
2. Health Systems
3. Biostatistics
4. Research
Social Medicine:
The field of social
medicine seeks to
implement social
care through
understanding how
social and economic
conditions impact
health, disease and
the practice of
medicine

7. Definition of health by WHO
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social
well being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity.

8. Introduction to concept of health
• An understanding of health is the basis of all the health care
• Health is not perceived the same way by all the members of a
community including various professional groups (like biomedical
scientists, social scientists, health administrators, ecologists) giving
rise to confusion about the concept of health.

9. Concept of
Health
Biomedical
Concept
Ecological
Concept
Psychosocial
concepts
Holistic Concept

10. Biomedical Concept
health has been viewed as an “absence of disease” and
if one has free from disease, then the person was
considered healthy.
has the basis in the ‘germ theory of disease’.
Ecological Concept
The ecologist put forward an attractive hypothesis
which viewed health as a dynamic equilibrium between
man and his environment.

11. Holistic Concept (THE MOST IMPORTANT)
Implies that all sectors of society have an affect on health, in
particular, agriculture, animal husbandry, food, industry, education,
housing, public works, communications and other sectors.
- emphasis is on the promotion and protection of health
Psychosocial concepts:
Health is not only a biomedical phenomenon, but one which
is influenced by social, psychological, cultural, economic
and political factors of the people concerned.

12. Holistic Health Dimensions

13. Health
Dimensions

14. Physical Dimensions (perfect functioning of the body)
Mental Dimensions (is a state of balance between body and
mind)
Social Dimensions (he is able to maintain harmonious
relationship with other members of society in which he lives)
Spiritual Dimensions ( in touch with deeper self and
exploration the purpose of life)
Emotional Dimensions ( emotionally healthy person has a
positive thinking and is capable of coping and adjusting self)
Vocational Dimensions (The choice of profession, job
satisfaction, career ambitions and personal performance)

15. Social Determinants of Health

16. • What are the downstream, midstream and upstream determinant of
health
Home work

17. References
• Preventive & Social Medicine- K.Park
• Textbook of Preventive & Social Medicine- M C Gupta, B K Mahajan
• http://www.babylon.com/definition/CURATIVE_MEDICINE/English

18. Thank you