HEALTH

Health

Health

Introduction

Various sources have defined health in different ways. Health can be described in a negative way or positive way. However, health should not be narrowed down to the state of non presence of illness only. Health incorporates many concepts and issues, two of which are health equity and health equality.

Discussion

Health

World Health Organization (1948) defines, “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (www.who.int)”

I prefer this definition for health because this is a positive definition of health that moves away from the negative, medical and narrow ...