Health
Vigor, vitality, strength, fitness, stamina
Soundness of body and mind
Capacity to live an economically and
socially productive life
Dimensions of health
Social
Economic
Spiritual
Physical
Political
Emotional
Intellectual
Dimensions of Health
Health cannot be conceptualized
outside of the cultural construct
that we bring to it.
Dimensions are not
parts but an integral
inseparable facet
like the dimensions
of a cube. Without
one side the cube
would not be a cube.
Social Dimension of health
• Pertaining to the companionship or relations with others
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(L socius = partner, comrade)
Pertaining to human society
Living habitually together in communities
Ability to enter into agreement with others for mutual
benefit and harmony
Political Dimension of Health
• Participation in the government and civic life
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(Gr politikos =civic)
Exercising or seeking power in public affairs
Having a definite policy or system of government making
freedom of movement, equality, expression, belief,
habitation, location and behavior possible
Spiritual Dimension of Health
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Incorporeal, ethereal (L spiritu=spirit)
Pertaining to the spirit or soul
Maintaining that the ultimate reality is spirit or mind
Engagement with the non-tangible, metaphysical,
immaterial
Intellectual Dimension of Health
• The power or faculty of the mind by which one knows or
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understands distinct from that by which one feels or wills
(ME/L intelltus = to understand)
Faulty of thinking and acquiring knowledge, predominance of
intellect
Cognitive and volitional state of consciousness
That knowledge that is wholly derived from pure reason as
reality
Emotional Dimension of Health
• Affective state of consciousness, not volitional or
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cognitive (MF esmovoir = to set in motion, move the
feelings)
Engagement in feelings of joy, hate, sorrow, loss,
intimate contact, love etc as affective influence
Capacity to psychologically nuture and be nutured
Economic Dimension of Health
• Access to the means by which to sustain life (Gr
oikonomikos, iokos = house, nomos = manager)
• Production, distribution, use of income, assets and
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comodities
Personal material resources available for sustenance
Physical Dimension of Health
• Pertaining to the body, corporeal, somatic, carnal,
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material (L physica = natural science)
The animal or human body as a material organism
Bodily, distinct from the mind or spirit