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This section of the chapter will consider a range of different perspectives on health, including theoretical perspectives, alternative models of health and also lay perspectives versus professional perspectives. Theoretical perspectives on health are distinguishable from lay perspectives on health (we return to these later) as those that are derived from academia. Theoretical perspectives on health inform professional perspectives, which are also distinguishable from lay perspectives.

To begin with, it is useful to consider two fundamental theoretical constructs of health – the medical model of health and the social model of health.