Towards a Unified Theory of Health-Disease: I. Health as a complex model-object

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Autor(a) principal: Almeida-Filho,Naomar
Data de Publicação: 2013
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista de Saúde Pública
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102013000300433
Resumo: Theory building is one of the most crucial challenges faced by basic, clinical and population research, which form the scientific foundations of health practices in contemporary societies. The objective of the study is to propose a Unified Theory of Health-Disease as a conceptual tool for modeling health-disease-care in the light of complexity approaches. With this aim, the epistemological basis of theoretical work in the health field and concepts related to complexity theory as concerned to health problems are discussed. Secondly, the concepts of model-object, multi-planes of occurrence, modes of health and disease-illness-sickness complex are introduced and integrated into a unified theoretical framework. Finally, in the light of recent epistemological developments, the concept of Health-Disease-Care Integrals is updated as a complex reference object fit for modeling health-related processes and phenomena.
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title Towards a Unified Theory of Health-Disease: I. Health as a complex model-object
spellingShingle Towards a Unified Theory of Health-Disease: I. Health as a complex model-object
Almeida-Filho,Naomar
Models, Theoretical
Health-Disease Process
Comprehensive Health Care
title_short Towards a Unified Theory of Health-Disease: I. Health as a complex model-object
title_full Towards a Unified Theory of Health-Disease: I. Health as a complex model-object
title_fullStr Towards a Unified Theory of Health-Disease: I. Health as a complex model-object
title_full_unstemmed Towards a Unified Theory of Health-Disease: I. Health as a complex model-object
title_sort Towards a Unified Theory of Health-Disease: I. Health as a complex model-object
author Almeida-Filho,Naomar
author_facet Almeida-Filho,Naomar
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Almeida-Filho,Naomar
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Models, Theoretical
Health-Disease Process
Comprehensive Health Care
topic Models, Theoretical
Health-Disease Process
Comprehensive Health Care
description Theory building is one of the most crucial challenges faced by basic, clinical and population research, which form the scientific foundations of health practices in contemporary societies. The objective of the study is to propose a Unified Theory of Health-Disease as a conceptual tool for modeling health-disease-care in the light of complexity approaches. With this aim, the epistemological basis of theoretical work in the health field and concepts related to complexity theory as concerned to health problems are discussed. Secondly, the concepts of model-object, multi-planes of occurrence, modes of health and disease-illness-sickness complex are introduced and integrated into a unified theoretical framework. Finally, in the light of recent epistemological developments, the concept of Health-Disease-Care Integrals is updated as a complex reference object fit for modeling health-related processes and phenomena.
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