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Concept of health and disease
spectrum is death and highest point corresponds to the WHO definition
of positive health. It is obvious that health fluctuates within arrange of
optimum well-being to various levels of dysfunction, including the state
of total dysfunction namely the death.
Optimum well-being:
• Positive health
• Better health
• Freedom from sickness
Total dysfunction: namely the death
• Unrecognized sickness
• Mild sickness
• Sever sickness
• Death
Fig (1) The health sickness spectrum
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