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Social Understandings of Health

Social Understandings of Health

Asocial perspective of health is one that concentrate on improving health an well-being

of the population and talks about the factors ,which influence ,and well-being.

This view also draws on key social determinants that influence broadsides of health and illness


with a population.




The World Health Organization has offered a definition of health that goes beyond the biomedical


and argues that health is: A state of complete social , psychological

and physical well -being and not merely the absence of disease ; Implicit within this definition

os the notion that health is not purely a physical phenomenon, but is influenced by soc-cultural,

economic and psychological factors.




There are whole range of alternative understandings of health and illness that very

broadly the understanding of health.Some have developed as indigenous systems over centuries


acupuncture, whilst others have emerged more recently, partly in response to criticisms of the

biomedical approach. One group of related analyses may be referred to as modles of the social


productions of health and illness. These argue that health and the way in which society is organized.

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