models of health and wellness mamac

clinical model
- agent: any environmental factor or
- narrowest interpretation of health
stressor (biologic, chemical, mechanical,
- viewed as physiologic system with related physical or psychological

fnxs
- host:

- health is identified by absence of signs - environment

and symptoms of disease or injury

- state of not being “sick

dunn’s high level wellness and grid model

- to relieves signs and symptoms of disease - quadrant 1

and eliminate malfnx and pain in body

- high level wellness in favorable
- when signs and symptoms no longer environment

present, medical practitioner considers - good health in all aspects

individuals health restored.

- quadrant 2

- emergent high level health in

role performance model
unfavorable environment

- individual ability to fulfill societal roles, - knows to be health but doesnt have
the needs to be healthy

performance of works

- believes that people who can fulfill their - quadrant 3

roles are healthy even if they have clinical

- protected poor level wellness in an
unfavorable environment

illness

- if unable to performs one’s role, they are - ill person whos needs are met by
health care system & has access to
unhealthy.

appropriate medications, diet and

health care instructions

adaptive model

- quadrant 4

- health is a creative process

- poor health in unfavorable environment

- disease is a failure in adaptation

- example: malnourished child who
- the aim of treatment is to restore the ability lives in a drought-striken country

of the person to adapt/to cope

- extreme food health is flexible adaptation health illness continua

to environment and interaction with the ***** see handout

environment to maximum advantage

- focus of this model is stability

- element of growth & change

eudomonistic model

- highest aspiration of people is fulfillment

and complete development, which is
actualization

- illness prevents self actualization

agent-host-environment model/ecologic
model

- health is in an ever changing state

- when variables are in balance, health is

maintained. when not, disease occurs