To Analyze the Co-Relationship Between Sickness Vs Healthcare – Analysis

Authors

C.L. Avadhani

Research Scholar, B.Sc., Amie, Mba, M. Phil, Mmm, Pgdfm, Pgdmm, Pgdba, Pgdhrm, PGDPM&IR, PGDIPR, DLL, LLM, Project Consultant, Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of Business Administration, Annamalai University (India)

Article Information

DOI: 10.51584/IJRIAS.2025.10100000177

Subject Category: Healthcare Technology

Volume/Issue: 10/10 | Page No: 2037-2047

Publication Timeline

Submitted: 2025-11-12

Accepted: 2025-11-20

Published: 2025-11-21

Abstract

This paper explores the historical and generational interplay between healthcare and sickness, tracing their coevolution from ancient traditional knowledge to the modern biomedical era. By synthesizing major developments in medical philosophy, institutional care, and disease patterns, the study reveals how generational knowledge transmission has shaped societal responses to illness. The analysis demonstrates that the tension between sickness and care serves as a vital engine of human progress, influencing ethics, technology, and public policy across centuries.
The present curriculum of medicine has to be redesigned to give priority to modernization of healthcare systems so as to prevent the people falling sick. The aspiring medicos should be taught about systems signs that addresses psychological, social and economic determinants of disease. The courses in medical education should take the approach of a patient centered, whole-person approach focused on long term functional status so that, will help to face the current fragmentation of care and allow for standardization of prevention strategies.
It is obligatory on the part of the respective government to introduce in their educational system curricula, psychological, social and economic determinants of a disease. The medical education should emphasize homeostasis and health rather than only disease and diagnosis and provide training in the science and practice of cost effective health programs/procedures. The healthcare mission/program of any country should be in the form of preventive care and not sick care. The ‘You-break’ and ‘I-fix’ reactive care model has become outdated and one’s aim needs to centered about prevention. Stopping or improving a current illness is imperative and achieved through closing the care gaps that are identified. It is mandatory of any nation to introduce specially designed healthcare programs to reduce the disease burden and improve the health of the population and make available to every citizen of their country access to healthcare. Such programs should be so designed that healthcare system should be focused on reversing or modifying disease/ailment not enhancing health. The complexity of health and disease requires a team accountable for the health of our population and these teams must be expanded beyond the healthcare professionals and include government officials, philanthropic institutions, charitable trusts, healthcare workers as stake holders for the education of population about healthcare and sickcare.

Keywords

Healthcare, Sickcare, Disease Prevention, Traditional Indian Medicine, Ayurveda, Generational transmission, Preventive care, Proactive health initiatives.

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