To browse Academia. Skip to main content. By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. Log In Sign Up. Download Free PDF. Alessandro Bosco. Download PDF. A short summary of this paper. Alessandro Bosco S Dr. Introduction The right to a healthy life for all peoples of the world is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights2. The concept of health is, however, difficult to interpret and assess. The notions of physical, mental, and especially social well-being are not easily and unequivocally quantifiable.
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Health is more of a fluid concept, and as a consequence so is the reaching of it. A metaphor, used by the health sociologist Aaron Antonovsky4, may help to conceptualize such statement. Assessing whether our river is inherently a dangerous one, and acknowledging our ability to swim in it, reveals either the frailty or the robustness of our health.
Building on this image, Antonovsky developed the ease — dis-ease continuum5: a spectrum where one extreme constitutes a condition of total ease, and the opposite one of irreversible dis-ease6 [death]. All humans, at any point in time, lie on one spot of the spectrum.
What then determines a movement within the continuum? Individual reactions to such variables influence in which direction does movement occur.
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Throughout this research the term will be comprehensively used in referring to coping with illnesses as well as for not being generally well resembling perhaps the denotation of the term uneaseconvinced that the two concepts are strictly related with one another. The salutogenic model, p. The first is rather straightforward: the goal should always be to tend towards the ease extreme. The third believes that the continuum can be applied to an aggregation of individuals: in such case the diagram shows the average trends of ease in a specific population. Let us go back to the act of identification of the Frsire these are not easily recognizable.
They are undeniably different from person to person, but an aggregate population may also be, on average, more or less exposed to some of these stressors, compared to another. Aside from underlying medical conditions, social determinants are perhaps the biggest influencers8. Gender, ethnicity, environment, and social class9 all shape the ease of humans.
This would show how certain areas of the world or certain populations are more vulnerable, while others enjoy a generalized better well-being. It is this that we label health inequity. These heterogeneous diseases affect over 1 billion people12, account for roughly deaths and 57 million disability-adjusted life-years DALYs each year]
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