The holistic wellness wheel (Figure 1) represents a balance between the seven areas of life: emotional, social, occupational/financial, intellectual, physical, environmental and spiritual. Each needs to be considered. What makes this wellness wheel holistic is that it includes whole lives as essential and does not spereate the spiritual self from the financial self or the physical self.
Physical wellness concerns the body, e.g. fitness, balanced diet, not being ill.
Financial wellness concerns envelope and cash budgets, cooking at home saves money, healthy work environment is important, set goals for your dream job.
Environmental wellness concerns good-quality house,pure-water facilities, recycle.
Intellectual wellness concerns being creative …show more content…
The qualities were lost or reduced as a result of illness, and the role of medicine was to restore them. As the medicine came to be seen as more of a science, doctors established what the normal functioning of the body should consist of and developed techniques aimed at bringing it back into normal working order. Doctors became less interested in whether patient felt unwell, but focused on biological abnormalities - diseases or injuries. According to the medical model of health, healthiness occurs when the body is in good working order. Also the medical model tends to restrict its focus to the specific area of the body that is malfunctioning (P. Harari, K. Legge 2001). For example, a patient with eczema who visits a GP is likely to be prescribed some kind of steroid cream to make it go away. A more holistic approach may examine the role that stress plays in worsens the eczema, for example, and may aim its treatment at the immune system as whole (McPherson Pharmacy, 2018). The approach that only focuses on one system is reductionist. The medical model only takes biological system into account (Shah and Mountain, …show more content…
flu virus), psychological (e.g. panic attack), and social systems (e.g. being too poor to afford a proper diet). It point out that no system exists in isolation and that an involvement at one level can have knock-on effects at other levels. The diversity in concepts of health, social changes, ways of measuring health, different approaches to heal lead to patient-centred vision: care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions. All approaches have different objectives (J. Naidoo and J. Wills 2016): to prevent disease to encourage people to adopt healthy
Physical wellness concerns the body, e.g. fitness, balanced diet, not being ill.
Financial wellness concerns envelope and cash budgets, cooking at home saves money, healthy work environment is important, set goals for your dream job.
Environmental wellness concerns good-quality house,pure-water facilities, recycle.
Intellectual wellness concerns being creative …show more content…
The qualities were lost or reduced as a result of illness, and the role of medicine was to restore them. As the medicine came to be seen as more of a science, doctors established what the normal functioning of the body should consist of and developed techniques aimed at bringing it back into normal working order. Doctors became less interested in whether patient felt unwell, but focused on biological abnormalities - diseases or injuries. According to the medical model of health, healthiness occurs when the body is in good working order. Also the medical model tends to restrict its focus to the specific area of the body that is malfunctioning (P. Harari, K. Legge 2001). For example, a patient with eczema who visits a GP is likely to be prescribed some kind of steroid cream to make it go away. A more holistic approach may examine the role that stress plays in worsens the eczema, for example, and may aim its treatment at the immune system as whole (McPherson Pharmacy, 2018). The approach that only focuses on one system is reductionist. The medical model only takes biological system into account (Shah and Mountain, …show more content…
flu virus), psychological (e.g. panic attack), and social systems (e.g. being too poor to afford a proper diet). It point out that no system exists in isolation and that an involvement at one level can have knock-on effects at other levels. The diversity in concepts of health, social changes, ways of measuring health, different approaches to heal lead to patient-centred vision: care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions. All approaches have different objectives (J. Naidoo and J. Wills 2016): to prevent disease to encourage people to adopt healthy