Health

Vigor, vitality, strength, fitness, stamina

Soundness of body and mindCapacity to live an economically and

socially productive life

Social

Economic

Emotional

Spiritual

Physical

Political

Intellectual

Dimensions of health

Dimensions of Health

Health cannot be conceptualized outside of the

cultural construct that we bring to it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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