- Title
- Health: a systems - and complexity - based definition
- Creator
- Sturmberg, Joachim P.; Topolski, Stefan; Lewis, Stephen
- Relation
- Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health p. 251-253
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4998-0_17
- Publisher
- Sringer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The previous three chapters have explored the dimensions of health through different lenses - the multiplicative agents of one's health potential , the subjective experience arising from sense-making, and a functional state that a11ows for survival and reproduction-the struggle for life. Together, they provide the basis for a congruent systems-based definition of health. Human health is a balanced state between physical, emotional, social and cognitive/sense-making domains. Within any local environmental context, a health state exists within a multidimensional phase space of physical integrity, functional performance and subjective experience producing an entropic state most consistent with viability.
- Subject
- human health; definition; complexity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1342656
- Identifier
- uon:29004
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781461449973
- Language
- eng
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