Models of Health & Disease

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Abstractions about how health and disease are conceptualized and studied, spanning explanatory health models (biomedical model, one health model, social uterus), epidemiological study designs (natural history study, pool chlorine hypothesis), and health-measurement or rights concepts (Pignet index, right to health).

8 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

• Biomedical model — The biomedical model of medicine care is the medical model used in most Western healthcare settings, and is built from the perception that a state of health is defined purely in the absence of illness.
• Medicalization — A social process in which a human condition, behavior, or life event is increasingly defined in medical terms, sometimes changing how it is managed.
• Natural History Study — In medicine, a natural history study is a study that follows a group of people over time who have, or are at risk of developing, a specific medical condition or disease.
• One Health Model — Zoonotic Diseases is another situation that the One Health model can be applied to.
• Pignet Index — Pignet Index or Body Build Index is an index used for evaluation of body build.
• Pool chlorine hypothesis — The pool chlorine hypothesis is the hypothesis that long-term attendance at indoor chlorinated swimming pools by children up to the age of about 6–7 years is a major factor in the rise of asthma in rich countries since the late twentieth century.
• Right to Health — The right to health is the economic, social, and cultural right to a universal minimum standard of health to which all individuals are entitled.
• Social uterus — Social uterus is a developmental concept in family therapy for psychosomatic disorders.