Health: a personal complex-adaptive state

Title: Health: a personal complex-adaptive state
Creator: Sturmberg, Joachim P.
Relation: Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health p. 231-242
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4998-0_15
Publisher: Springer
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: Defining health has been a long-term endeavour, each attempt taking a particular perspective that emphasises one aspect of the experience of health over others. It is notable that only the WHO definition mentions disease - the "enemy" that needs to be wiped out - as part of the health definition; all others emphasise personal aspects that result in the experience ofpersonal health (Table 15.1). The experience of health is essentially personal and has been equated to well-being and happiness. The dynamics between personal internal and external factors determine theexperience of health, be it good health or poor health, or be it in the presence or the absence of discrete diseases. People can report poor health in terms of illness or disease rather than their specific conditions (diseases).
Subject: medicine; health; personal health
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1342650
Identifier: uon:29003
Identifier: ISBN:9781461449973
Language: eng

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