health and wellbeing

Health has a number of definitions that have been employed for various purposes across time. Health is defined as the condition of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, rather than simply the absence of disease or disability. Wellness is an active process in which people become aware of and make choices for a more prosperous life.

Some health-related factors are the result of individual choices, such as whether to engage in high-risk activity, whilst others are the result of structural causes, such as whether society is organized in such a manner that it is simpler or more difficult for people to obtain critical healthcare services. Other issues, however, go beyond the individual and group choices discussed in this book.