.Human Experience Across the Health-Illness Continuum. Importance of the perspective in caring for the patients

.Human Experience Across the Health-Illness Continuum. Importance of the perspective in caring for the patients

1. Experience of humankind through health-illness:

The health-illness continuum is a graphical illustration based on the concept of human wellbeing as a whole mental and emotional (Falvo and Holland, 2017). At times, people might not show any physical symptoms of the disease but still be depressed, anxious, and unhappy and continuously complain of not feeling well and can affect the wellness of the person.Human Experience Across the Health-Illness Continuum.

The concept of the health-illness continuum:

The definition of wellness varies from person to person. Some think wellness to be the opposite of illness. To them, if they don’t have any physical illness, they are well. Some are always motivated to be active for a healthy lifestyle. The rest consists of some person who is either satisfied or dissatisfied with their current condition.Human Experience Across the Health-Illness Continuum.

Figure: 1- graphical representation of the health-illness continuum.The right side shows the degrees or levels of wellness, and the left side shows the degrees of illness.
The continuum states that wellness or wellbeing is dynamic and not static. It must move the patient to greater health and welfare. A person’s outlook also contributes to the state of wellness. The positive vision of a person having any disability or disease would face the right side of the continuum in contrast to a fit person who is unhappy in life and is always complaining, depressed, and anxious. This outlook is negative, and it hinders the growth of mental and emotional wellbeing whereas the positive outlook influences mental and emotional wellness to growth, awareness, and knowledge:

This perfective is important in treating patients with hope as it contributes to the mental and emotional development of the person. With this view, the patients can be motivated to have better health and prevent any physical and emotional disease by measuring in which scale the patient lies in the continuum. It also estimates the development made by them.