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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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