Human Body Health: A Case Study

INTRODUCTION

Your body health is determined on how you adapt to the environment. The English word health comes from the Old English word hale, meaning wholeness, being whole, sound or well (Nordqvist, 2015). Health can be defined in many different ways. WHO 1948 defined health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. According to Sartorius, 2006 health has three meanings first one is the absence of disease, the second one is that health is a state that allows the individual to cope with all the activities of daily living and thirdly health is a state of being equilibrium that is established between an individual and his social and physical environment.

This discussion

In my interview, the adolescent defined health as the state of being free from illness and injury also she defined illness as a disease or period of sickness affecting the body. According to Verbrugge and Jette, 1994 they describe health which is related to the ability of individuals to maintain a balance with the environment, with relative freedom from pain, disability or limitations.

Dubos 1965 states that the closest approach to optimum or high-level health is a physical and mental free of discomfort and pain that permits one to function effectively within the environment. The question “Do you think you are healthy? Why?” was asked in the interview. The adolescent responses as “No, I’m unhealthy because I don’t eat healthily, I don’t exercise regularly and I am overweight for my age. This causes the adolescent to not function properly within the environment.

The adolescent suggests that eating healthy, getting regular exercise and limiting on how much alcohol one drink can help a person to stay healthy. Dubos considers optimum health to be a mirage because in the real world individuals must face the physical and social forces that are forever changing and often

Wellness, on the other hand, is considered and expanded term, not as restricted as the concept of health. High-level wellness is described as integrated human functioning that is oriented towards maximizing an individual’s potential (Dunn, 1980).

As the interviewee states that regular exercise can help a person to become healthy it compares with Dunn’s theory which identifies a balance as a dimension of health, the emphasis is on the realization of human potential through a purposeful activity which refers to the regular exercise. There is a single optimum level of wellness as individuals move toward their personal optimum level based on their capabilities and potential to stay