Health and Wellness
Health is a word often associated with good fitness. Early definitions of health focused on illness.
The first medical doctors concentrated on helping sick people get well; they treated illnesses. Health was considered as nothing more than absence from disease.
But as medical and public health experts received better training, they began to focus on prevention of illness and disease as well as in the treatment of people who were already sick.
This new focus led world health experts to define health as more than absence from disease.
In recent years the definition of health has been expanded to include wellness, as state of being that enables you to reach your fullest potential.
Wellness includes intellectual, social, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects. It has to do with feeling good about yourself and with having goals and purposes in life.
Wellness is more likely to be present in individuals who assume responsibility for their own health.
So illness is the negative component of health that we want to treat or prevent, while wellness is the positive component of health that we want to promote.
Health and Wellness
Health is a word often associated with good fitness. Early definitions of health focused on illness.
The first medical doctors concentrated on helping sick people get well; they treated illnesses. Health was considered as nothing more than absence from disease.
But as medical and public health experts received better training, they began to focus on prevention of illness and disease as well as in the treatment of people who were already sick.
This new focus led world health experts to define health as more than absence from disease.
In recent years the definition of health has been expanded to include wellness, as state of being that enables you to reach your fullest potential.
Wellness includes intellectual, social, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects. It has to do with feeling good about yourself and with having goals and purposes in life.
Wellness is more likely to be present in individuals who assume responsibility for their own health.
So illness is the negative component of health that we want to treat or prevent, while wellness is the positive component of health that we want to promote.
Health and Wellness
