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.

WHO DEFINITION a state of complete physical well-being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

WHO DEFINITION a state of complete mental well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

WHO DEFINITION a state of complete social well-being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

WHO DEFINITION Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well- being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

HEALTH Is health a dichotomy or continuum?

HEALTH To what degree is health objective and to what degree subjective?

HEALTH To what degree is health culturally and temporally changing?

HEALTH To what degree is health personal and to what degree is it collective?

Some quotations to consider…..

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

QUOTATION Western medicine believes health is a war, and the body is a battleground that should be assaulted Mike Adams

QUOTATION It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Jiddu Krishnamurti