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Lecture Notes

Our views about health have evolved over time. We're going to cover three different perceptions of health and how they've changed throughout time. The first one is really viewing health as an absence of disease. So this was in the early 1900s, people viewed health as simply the absence of disease; not being ill. If an individual was not sick, then they were healthy, pretty simple. If an individual was sick, the best course of action was to seek treatment from a medical doctor. And this view of health really privileges your physical health to the exclusion of other types of health such as your social, spiritual, emotional health, that we'll talk about later in this lecture.