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Health

Health. Vigor, vitality, strength, fitness, stamina Soundness of body and mind Capacity to live an economically and socially productive life. Dimensions of health. Spiritual. Social. Physical. Economic. Political. Emotional. Intellectual. Dimensions of Health.

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Health

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  1. Health Vigor, vitality, strength, fitness, stamina Soundness of body and mind Capacity to live an economically and socially productive life

  2. Dimensions of health Spiritual Social Physical Economic Political Emotional Intellectual

  3. Dimensions of Health Health cannot be conceptualized outside of the cultural construct that we bring to it.

  4. Dimensions are not parts but an integral inseparable facet like the dimensions of a cube. Without one side the cube would not be a cube.

  5. Social Dimension of health • Pertaining to the companionship or relations with others (L socius = partner, comrade) • Pertaining to human society • Living habitually together in communities • Ability to enter into agreement with others for mutual benefit and harmony

  6. Political Dimension of Health • Participation in the government and civic life (Gr politikos =civic) • Exercising or seeking power in public affairs • Having a definite policy or system of government making freedom of movement, equality, expression, belief, habitation, location and behavior possible

  7. Spiritual Dimension of Health • Incorporeal, ethereal (L spiritu=spirit) • Pertaining to the spirit or soul • Maintaining that the ultimate reality is spirit or mind • Engagement with the non-tangible, metaphysical, immaterial

  8. Intellectual Dimension of Health • The power or faculty of the mind by which one knows or understands distinct from that by which one feels or wills (ME/L intelltus = to understand) • Faulty of thinking and acquiring knowledge, predominance of intellect • Cognitive and volitional state of consciousness • That knowledge that is wholly derived from pure reason as reality

  9. Emotional Dimension of Health • Affective state of consciousness, not volitional or cognitive (MF esmovoir = to set in motion, move the feelings) • Engagement in feelings of joy, hate, sorrow, loss, intimate contact, love etc as affective influence • Capacity to psychologically nuture and be nutured

  10. Economic Dimension of Health • Access to the means by which to sustain life (Gr oikonomikos, iokos = house, nomos = manager) • Production, distribution, use of income, assets and comodities • Personal material resources available for sustenance

  11. Physical Dimension of Health • Pertaining to the body, corporeal, somatic, carnal, material (L physica = natural science) • The animal or human body as a material organism • Bodily, distinct from the mind or spirit

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