For many people, health and illness are opposites which can make them view health as which of the following?
1. Freedom from evil that causes illness
2. A state of physical fitness
3. A state of emotional ambiguity
4. The reward for a productive life
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Explanation: 1. Many people associate health and illness as opposites, such that health is good and illness is evil. Therefore, viewing health from this perspective sees health as the freedom from and absence of evil that causes illness.
2. Physical fitness is a functional definition of health, and being physically fit is healthy.
3. Emotional wholeness can be considered health if viewed as the opposite of illness, and therefore ambiguity would not be health.
4. Health as a reward for a productive life infers that a person cannot be productive if he or she is ill, which is not always true.
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