Health and Social Care - Health and Wellbeing

Health

The complete state of physical, social, and mental well-being and not just the absence of disease or infirmity.

Ill Health

A state in which an individual is unable to function normally because of the presence of something negative like disease, or the absence of something positive like adequate nutrition.

Disease

A diagnostic label given to a set of sighs or symptoms, which are usually long term e.g. coronary heart disease.

Stress Related Illness

Physical symptoms, which result from the phycological effects that occur when a person feels anxious and unable to cope with stressors like work or financial or family problems e.g. headaches, palpitations, and stomach problems.

Mental Health

Not just the absence of a mental illness, but a form of subjective well-being, in which an individual feels unable to cope with life.

Mental Illness

A phycological condition that is characterised by behaviour which is abnormal and is often linked to chemical changes in the brain e.g. depression.