title: Wellness: the dialectic of illness.
abstract: From a review of empirical and theoretical work, a model of wellness-illness evolved. The unfolding of events associated with wellness-illness is depicted as a generic paradigm with health, disease, wellness and illness existing in a dialectical relationship. Although distinct, health-disease and wellness-illness are neither mutually exclusive nor polar opposites. Rather, they are one in the same process, acknowledging the changing person in the changing world. Wellness-illness is the human experience of actual or perceived function-dysfunction through the interaction of cognitive-affective dimensions. This experience arises out of intrapersonal, interpersonal, health-disease-related and extra-personal factors.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D004194:Disease; D006262:Health; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009729:Nursing