What does is healthy? (physically)?
Question:
There is lots of focus on how to "become" heatlhy or how to "pervent" bad health.
When are you healthy? What defines healthy? Is it when you can run a mile, or a marathon? Is it the absense of sickness?
Today it seems there is so much focus on heath, but it seems to be a focus in the most unhealthy manner- driving people headlong into something that they are told will make them happy.
What is Health to you?
Answers:
I'm going to give you the NURSE answer. It is based on the principle of holistic care, which looks at the whole person rather than a single part of them.
In that frame of thought, health is defined as whatever the person thinks it is. You could have cancer in your entire body, but if you wake up one morning, and feel good, feel healthy, then by holistic definition...you are healthy.
To some extent this is a good way of looking at it. There are so many people living in the world with underlying conditions, but who don't feel as if their health as a person is being burdened. This allows nurses to view a patient's health in a way that is relative to the mind set of the patient.
On the flip side to that, the medical model of health is quite strict. The absense of disease. This encompasses a lot, which means a lot of people aren't medically healthy, yet they are holistically healthy.
There are strengths and weaknesses to both views.
Its up to you to determine how you percieve health... medically or holistically... or like me, a mix of both.
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