health vigor, vitality, strength, fitness, stamina soundness of body and mind capacity to live an...
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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