Health is defined as absence of illness or disease. The medical model implies the existence of illness or disease. The suggestion is that optimum health exists when a person is free of symptoms and does not require medical treatment. Accordingly, prevention of disease and health promotion are lower to a secondary status.
Medical sociologists have gone a step further in defining health as an optimum capacity of an individual to perform his or her expected social roles and tasks in society is considered sick. However, this concept also tends to view health negatively because many people continue to engage in their social obligations despite suffering from pain, cough, cold and other types of temporary disabilities, including mental disorders.
Medical sociologists have gone a step further in defining health as an optimum capacity of an individual to perform his or her expected social roles and tasks in society is considered sick. However, this concept also tends to view health negatively because many people continue to engage in their social obligations despite suffering from pain, cough, cold and other types of temporary disabilities, including mental disorders.