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Defining Health

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

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Defining Health

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  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 ?

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