– The purpose of this paper is to review different perspectives of health and illness keeping the human being at the center.
– This paper has been written based on the review of secondary literature.
– The analysis indicates that the appropriate perspective to use depends on normative considerations and the particular policy context to which it will be applied.
– The main limitation was time and resources, which were overcome by meticulous analysis of secondary data and also through comparison of the results by achieving triangulation.
– The paper analyzed different perspectives of health and illness in order to increase the insight to the phenomena of health and illness; and also to reach a decision whether consensus among the perspectives is possible or otherwise.
– After analyzing the existing perspectives of health and illness, this paper proposes that an appropriate approach is needed to reconcile different perspectives for sustainable use.
