Defining Health

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This is a conceptual paper regarding the views of defining health. The paper looks at health as the absence of illness; however, specific concepts are discussed such as the three major sociological paradigms used to view health and the paradigm shifts and the roles individuals play relative to their sick role. The majority of the paper revolves around the concept of health as a perception of the state the individual is in such that one can be sick yet still consider themselves healthy.

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"Often health is defined by a lack of pathology. This paper proves the hypothesis: Defining health is a subjective evaluation by the individual as opposed to "the absence of pathology" by looking at several different populations of health."

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