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OT126 Introduction to health and disease

ND1 level22 topics

OT126 covers 22 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Concepts and models of health, illness and disease
  2. Western medicine and traditional healing
  3. Categories, causes and terminology of disease
  4. Mind-body interaction and holism
  5. Placebo effects
  6. Factors influencing health-care seeking
  7. Sources and reliability of health information
  8. Health beliefs and illness behaviour
  9. Health and illness behaviour
  10. Health beliefs
  11. Sick role and patient career
  12. Patient narratives and lived experience
  13. Biomedical/medical model
  14. Folk and traditional healer model
  15. Health care systems in Nigeria
  16. Medical process of care
  17. Surgical process of care
  18. Psychiatric process of care
  19. Common diagnostic procedures
  20. Medical, surgical and psychiatric treatments
  21. Knowledge transfer and brokerage
  22. Occupational therapy personnel as mediators

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Concepts and models of health, illness and disease

To excel in the NUC/CCMAS/NBTE/NCCE exam, students must grasp the core concepts of health, illness, and disease, and understand the main models that explain how these states are defined, measured and related. These ideas form the foundation for interpreting epidemiological data, designing interventions and evaluating health outcomes.

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