DEBATE ISSUES ON CONCEPT OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
DEBATE ISSUE 1:
A person who is asymptomatic and functional, who has no health complaints, and who manifests nothing unusual can either have no disease at all or have an occult disease.
In a situation in which the person has occult disease, do you consider him HEALTHY OR NOT HEALTHY?
DEBATE ISSUE 2:
A person is obese. Another person is thin.
How do you consider these two persons, HEALTHY OR NOT HEALTHY?
DEBATE ISSUE 3:
A person who has a disease which is notorious for being recurrent and containing occult diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and hypertension.
Assuming this person has been treated and is now functional, asymptomatic, and has no health complaints.
Do you consider this person HEALTHY or NOT HEALTHY?
DEBATE ISSUE 4:
Assuming a person is diagnosed to have cancer, diabetes, or hypertension. He is, however, asymptomatic and functional.
Do you consider this person HEALTHY or NOT HEALTHY?
DEBATE ISSUE 5:
A patient had a polio. One lower extremity is atrophic or shorter or smaller than the other. He walks with a cane. He has a job and is living alone.
Do you consider this person HEALTHY or NOT HEALTHY?
DEBATE ISSUE 6:
Death is fact of life.
Barring murder and accident, is death always preceded by a disease?
DEBATE ISSUE 7:
Is disease a fact of life too, just like death?
Can we avoid diseases?
Are diseases preventable?
DEBATE ISSUE 8:
Is there such a thing as a permanently healthy status in an individual, family, or a community?
DEBATE ISSUE 9:
Considering your concept of health and disease, what will be your stand in SCREENING FOR DISEASES in individuals, families, and communities.
Will you screen for diseases or not?
DEBATE ISSUE 10:
Considering your concept of health and disease, what will be your HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM for yourself?
DEBATE ISSUE 11:
Considering your concept of health and disease, what is your stand in the management of patients with incurable diseases, meaning whose chances for recovery are practically nil?
Do you try to cure them despite all odds?
DEBATE ISSUE 12:
Considering your concept of health and disease, what do you think should be the roles of physician managing a patient with a health problem?
To cure or to try to control his disease?
To prevent or try to prevent the development of disease?
To look for the occult disease or to wait for the occult disease to manifest itself?
ROJ@17may12