What is the Difference between Healthy and Disease free

What is the Difference between Healthy and Disease free

Health : It is a state of being well enough to function well physically mentally & socially.

Personal & Community issue both matter for health 
Our social environment is an important factor in our individual health. Human begins live in societies in villages, towns or cities. In such places, even our physical environment is decided by our social environment.

Public health services : These services ensure

  1. proper removal and disposal of garbage
  2. proper drainage of sewage
  3. clean drinking water and unadulterated food items
  4. vector and pest control
  5. proper vaccination and other health care services etc.

If public health services are inadequate, the helath of individual citizens is bound to be affected despite taking best personal hygiene and consuming the balanced diet.

Economic conditions: Food is earned by doing job. Proper earning is necessary to provide adequate and nutritious food to everyone in the family.

Social equality and harmony : Similarly, social equality and harmony are necessary for individual helath. It involves participation in one another’s joys and sorrow, helping others and receiving help at the time of need etc.  

Personal hygiene : It involves individual’s cleanliness. It can be achieved by washing of soiled hand, regular cleaning of teeth, care of eyes, taking bath, wearing clean clothes, timely vaccination against dangered diseases etc.

Differences between ‘healthy’ and ‘disease free’ 

HealthyDisease-free

1.  It is a state of physical, mental and social well being.

1. It is a state of absence of any discomfort or derangement of the functioning of the body.
2.  It refers not only to the individual but also its social and community environment.2. It refers to the individual.
3.  A ‘healthy’ individual is one who is able to perform normal under given situation.3. A ‘disease-free’ individual may have good health or poor health

Symptoms : These are the manifestations or evidences of the presence of disease(s). Symptoms indicate that there is some abnormality in the body. For instance, we have headache or cough or loose motions or wound with pus, all these are symptoms of some disease(s).

On the basis of the symptoms, the physicians do the following :

  1. They look for the signs of a particular disease.
  2. They get laboratory tests done on the patients to further confirm the disease.

Signs: These provide information about the presence of particular disease. These are distinct for different diseases.

Differences between symptoms and signs of diseases

Symptoms

Signs

1.  Symptoms indicate the presence of disease

1. Signs provide information about the presence of particular disease.

2.  These are the manifestations or evidences of the presence of disease(s) of various body parts.

2. These are distinct for different diseases.