Defining Health

1. Defining Health

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

3. 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

4. Definition of ‘Disease’ specific disorder a disorder in humans, animals, or plants with recognizable signs and often having a known cause

5. Definition of ‘Disease’ problem in society a serious problem in society or with a group of people

6. Definition of Infirmity lack of strength 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

7. Complete Physical Well-being A state of complete physical well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

8. Complete physical well-being Dichotomy or continuum? Variable baselines?

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

10. 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?

11. Complete Mental well-being Objectivity and subjectivity? Culturally and temporally changing?

12. 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

13. Complete Social Well-being A state of complete social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

14. Complete Social Well-being Social v. societal disease and infirmity? Personal or collective?

15. Quotation It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. JidduKrishnamurti

16. Other Dimensions of Health? • Emotional ? • Spiritual ? • Others ?