CONCEPT OF HEALTH & WELLNESS
Health Traditionally health has been defined in the term of the Presence or absence of disease. A series of successful and continuous adaptation to a continuously changing environment. The conditions of being sound in body, mind or spirit and especially free from physical disease or pain (Webster). Soundness of body or mind; that condition in which their functions are duly and efficiently discharge (Oxford English Dictionary). "A state of relative equilibrium of body, form and function which result from its successful dynamic adjustment to forces tending to disturb it. It is not passive interplay between body substance and forces impinging upon it but an active response of body forces working towards readjustment." (Perkin) According to the Nightingale – "Health is a state of being well and using every power of the individual processes to the fullest extent. According to the WHO "Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely ...