Understanding Health. What is health? An easy answer? Is it when you are not ill? Do people agree? What factors do you consider?

Understanding Health


•What is health?

•An easy answer?

•Is it when you are not ill?

•Do people agree?

•What factors do you consider?


Healthy or not?


Healthy or not?


Healthy or not?


Healthy or not?


Healthy or not?


Healthy or not?


Healthy or not?


Healthy or not?


Healthy or not?Did you consider:• Possible future problems• Lifestyle and risk factors• Difference between fitness & health• What counts as normal• Whether ideas have changed over time


Healthy or not?•The World Health Organization defines health as:

– Health is a state of complete physical and mental well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

(WHO 1985)•Using this definition, what might people need to be healthy?

Understanding Health. What is health? An easy answer? Is it when you are not ill? Do people agree? What factors do you consider?

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