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This 7 page paper looks at different aspects of health. The paper starts by defining health and looking at four models of health. Then 2 transmissible diseases and 2 non transmissible diseases are disused. The paper ends by looking at immunisation programs. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
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or infirmity (World Health Organisation, 2005). Moreover, public health is seen as the practice and study of protecting and improving the communitys health by the use of preventive medicine, health
education, controlling diseases that are easily communicated, applying sanitation methods and finally environmental hazards monitoring (Haralambos and Holborn, 2004) Models of Health There
are many models of health. We will look at four models of health, these are the biomedical model, the behavioural model, the socio-environmental model and the socio-economic model. The 4
Models The biomedical model illustrates the idea of health with the absence of disease or any disorders, the behavioural model looks at health
within the idea of diseases and disorders in absentia (Labonte and Thompson, 1993). The socio-environmental model view health as a way of making the right lifestyle choices to improve
health of the individual. This socio-economic model discusses the negatives and positives in costs towards providing better health in the community and for individuals (Labonte and Thompson, 1993). Critically Analysing
the Models Looking at the four models it is easy to see the fine division of where health concerns and support lie as
they look to different perspectives and input factors. The World Health Organisation have taken steps to clarify the way we analyse these models and have noted the best way
a community can be served by understanding how each model affects not only individuals but also the community as a whole (Labonte and Thompson, 1993). For example, if we
take the first model of biomedical, it can be argued that this model is concerned with impersonal risk and risks that cannot be caused only by individual interaction whereas the
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