Health is indicated by the ability to perform social roles.
Role performance includes work, family and social roles, with performance based on societal expectations.
Illness would be the future to perform a person’s roles at the level of others in society.
This model is basis for work and school physical examination and physician –excused absences.
The sick role, in which people can be excused from performing their social roles while they are ill, is a vital component of the role performance model.