Health and Ill Health

• General definition of health -> Complete physical, mental and social well-being, not just absence of disease.
• Biomedical definition of health -> Physical/biological factors, illness is physical disease, health is absence of disease.
• Biopsychosocial definition of health ->An interaction between biological, psychological and social factors.
• Health as a continuum -> Health/ill health are two extremes with many states in between.