读文献：what is ‘Health’ in the 21st century?

• Scores of definitions of ‘health’ are available on theInternet. The most commonly quoted definition of health is that formalized by the World Health Organization (WHO) over half a century ago; “a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
• Critics argue that the WHO definition of health is utopian, inflexible, and unrealistic, and that including the word “complete” in the definition makes it highly unlikely that anyone would be healthy for a reasonable period of time. It also appears that ‘a state of complete physical mental and social well-being’ corresponds more to happiness than to health

• The words ‘health’ and ‘happiness’ designate distinct life experiences, whose relationship is neither fixed nor constant. Failure to distinguish happiness from health implies that any disturbance in happiness, however minimal, may come to be perceived as a health problem.

  FROM：Bulletin of the World Health Organization   Menu

  Re-defining ‘Health’

  Article: Üstün & Jakob. 2005;83:802

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