Health and science

What is health?

• A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not only the absence of diseases or illnesses

• A state in which you feel satisfied with your life

• A state of complete physical state, in which you don't suffer from any disease

What is quality of life?

• A view of health, in which overall health is seen as a combination of physical, mental and social well being.

• Is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.

• Is when you don't feel satisfied with your life, but you are trying to change.

What is wellness?

• A broader view of health, in which overall health is seen as a combination of physical, mental and social well being.

• How well you treat yourself and the ones that surround you.

• When you feel well, but not satisfied.

Having a healthy relationship with your family is an example of...

• Social Health

• Mental Health

• Physical Health

Having a good relationship with yourself and sharing your emotions are examples of...

• Social Health

• Mental Health

• Physical Health

Having a healthy diet and getting enough sleep are examples of...

• Social Health

• Mental Health

• Physical Health

All power, principle or substance capable of acting in the body and be harmful if its presence starts a disease

• Agent

• Host

• Pathogen

• Natural history of disease

Any living being that in natural conditions allows the subsistence or lodging of a causal agent of disease.

• Agent

• Host

• Pathogen

• Natural history of disease

Circumstances that favors the pathologic relationship between the host and the agent

• Agent

• Host

• Pathogen

• Environment

They are all factors that influence: the existence, exposure, and susceptibility to the pathogen to cause disease to the host.

• Agents

• Limitations of disability

• Epidemiological triangle

• Environment