HEALTH

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

absence of any disease or impairment

allows the individual to adequately cope with all
demands of daily life
CONCEPT OF HEALTH
• Health is a wholistic concept
• It includes
Physical Health
Emotional Health
Social Health
Spiritual Health
Intellectual Health
Environmental Health &
Occupational Health
HEALTH VS ILLNESS

• Health and Illness are relative concept

• The concept of illness has evolved in the past as the
presence of microbes.
• Later, the emphasis was placed on the constitution
and the environment.
• Nowadays, illness is seen as a system that the body
puts in place to find again its lost balance
HEALTH VS ILLNESS
• Illness is identified with the personal
emotional state connected to the loss of
health
• Disease refers to the objective, biological
and measurable dimension of it
• linked with the physician’s activity