Fig. 2.

1. Diagram depicting a traditional focus on health and the disease-causing agent. 2. A slightly more patient-centered model, including his/her illness and the disease-causing agent. 3. An Ecosystem Health model where patients with illnesses and related disease-causing agent are encountered in the context and influence of family, community, society, ecosystem, and the world as a system.

(Modified from Rapport et al. (2002).)