DEFINING HEALTH WHO DEFINITION Health is a state
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DEFINING HEALTH
WHO DEFINITION Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
DEFINITION OF ‘DISEASE’ medical condition a condition in humans, plants, or animals that results in pathological symptoms and is not the direct result of physical injury
DEFINITION OF ‘DISEASE’ specific disorder a disorder in humans, animals, or plants with recognizable signs and often having a known cause
DEFINITION OF ‘DISEASE’ problem in society a serious problem in society or with a group of people
DEFINITION OF INFIRMITY lack of strength and vitality character flaw a weakness or failing in somebody's character minor illness any medical condition that causes a lack of strength or vitality
COMPLETE PHYSICAL WELL-BEING A state of complete physical well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
COMPLETE PHYSICAL WELL-BEING Dichotomy or continuum? Variable baselines?
QUOTATION Western medicine believes health is a war, and the body is a battleground that should be assaulted Mike Adams
COMPLETE MENTAL WELL-BEING A state of complete mental social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Objectivity and subjectivity? Culturally and temporally changing?
COMPLETE MENTAL WELL-BEING Objectivity and subjectivity? Culturally and temporally changing?
QUOTATIONS The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we. Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing
COMPLETE SOCIAL WELL -BEING A state of complete social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
COMPLETE SOCIAL WELL-BEING Social v. societal disease and infirmity? Personal or collective?
QUOTATION It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Jiddu Krishnamurti
OTHER DIMENSIONS OF HEALTH? • Emotional ? • Spiritual ? • Others ?