Positive Health

• Burgerschap
• MBO
• Studiejaar 3

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Welcome

A small introduction on the concept of positive health

Positive Health?
what comes to mind?

Positive health = 

1.  A way of looking at people (how do you see and approach people)
2.  A method to use while caring for people (tools: spiderweb and questionaire) 

what is your opinion?
'People are not there illnes'

agree

not agree

something in between

what is your opinion?
'Eldery people are always depentent'

agree

not agree

something in between

WHO

'Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease.'

Definition of the world health organisation 
 

Machteld Huber

Health is broader than the absence of disease or symptoms. An increasingly central role is plaued by other aspects, such as resilience, sense of purpose, meaningfulnes and selfmanagement. (Machteld Huber)

Health dimensions

• Bodily functions
• Mental functions and experience
• Spiritual/ existential dimension
•  Quality of Live
• Social Participation
• Daily functioning

What does positive health look like in caring for older people? 

 

• recillience (how to make use of this?) 
• meaningfull live (how to support this?)
  
• empowerment (how to stimulate this?)
  

Summarized  

• People are important as an holistic person not just the dissease(s) or disabiltys 
• The concept emhasizes the 'potential' not the unpossible
• The focus on 'health' rather than on ilness helps policymakers and politicians to think differently and to make supply better aligned with the demand.